As to the law itself, The Arizona Republic urged the governor NOT to sign the Bill into law. That did not mean, however, that the newspaper supported the program. Yesterday the editorial in that newspaper had the following headline: "LAW IS PROBLEM BUT SO IS MESSAGE OF THESE CLASSES." In the body of the editorial the following question is posed: Would I let my child take part in a public-school program that: Is directed by someone who declares, flat out: "Our teachers are left-leaning. They are progressives. They're going to have things (in the classrooms) that conservatives are not going to like.:" - Dr. Augustine Romero, Feb. 1, 2008.
+ Originally was exsposed for it's political activism not by Republican state schools Superintendent Tom HOrfen, but by two TUSD theachers, both Hispanic. Both of whom subsequently have been vidiously attacked by the ethnic-studies radicals as ...racists.
+Featured at its annual institute for Transformative Education summer seminar for district teachers, students and other speakers who are avowed Marxists including Dr. Peter McLaren of UCLA, who in his video taped keynote address in 2008 shared such nuggests with TUSD teachers and students as these: "The real god of the U.S. is violence; its creed being violence saves.'" "Revolutionary violence can be justified." "In a capitalist societgy, your're either part of the capitalist class or part of the working class."
+ Is committed to the instructional dogma of South American Marxist education theoretician Paolo Friere, who's book "Pedagogy of the Opperessed" explicitly urges recruiting students to the communist revolution.
+ Teaches students to defy their own (remarkably timid) school officials to demonstrate against Horne; ther demonstration last week included street theater in which a student playing "Horne" was left lying "dead" on the grass. At last we see some hints of what truly goes on in TUSD's ethnic-sstudies classrooms.
"Is this what the apologists for TUSD's ethnic-studies program really wish for these Arizona students? Would they eally tolerate such activism if these were their children being manipulated? Not likely.