A bill that aims to ban ethnic studies in Arizona schools was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jan Brewer, cheering critics who called such classes divisive and alarming others who said it's yet another law targeting Latinos in the state...
HB 2281 bans schools from teaching classes that are designed for students of a particular ethnic group, promote resentment or advocate ethnic solidarity over treating pupils as individuals. The bill also bans classes that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government.
Aside from the obvious problems, I am disturbed that the bill authors clearly think that ethnic studies classes promote resentment (rather than understanding), or that instructors in these classes are incapable of treating students fairly.
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