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Native American and Chicano books banned in Tuscon

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Tigger20051/16/2012 3:44:18 am PST

Was reading on Horne’s Wikipedia page that he championed a law to prohibit curricula that: 1) Promote the overthrow of the United States government. 2) Promote resentment toward a race or class of people. 3) Are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group. 4) Advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.

I’m willing to admit this is a complicated issue. If there is a curriculum actually promoting these things it should be addressed…we don’t need schools becoming hotbeds of racial resentment and strife. Students should be taught to appreciate the best of all cultures (including their own). But banning books is not the way to do this.