Maybe I'm not giving Gruesome Newsom enough credit for vetoing this crap, but I could be forgiven for thinking that the proposed curriculum wasn't leftie enough or didn't include some favored group:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have required students to take an ethnic studies class to graduate high school.
Newsom said that while he supports the concept of ethnic studies, he had concern about requiring a high school course when “there is much uncertainty about the appropriate K-12 model curriculum for ethnic studies"...
“To flat out veto ethnic studies for high school students is unacceptable,” said Kim Gavin Austin, a teacher at La Entrada High School in the San Juan Unified School District. “Public education promotes white supremacy, because of the way the curriculum is taught.”
Austin, who is black, said she is concerned that teachers will not teach ethnic studies if it’s not required. San Juan Unified offers the course as an elective.
Kim Gavin Austin strikes me as none too bright, based on the comments above.
Nearly 80% of California’s K-12 student population identifies as non-white. In comparison, more than 60% of California teachers are white.
Theresa Montaño, an ethnic studies Professor at Cal State University, Northridge, and member of the original Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee, said that the majority of California students “were just told that their stories don’t matter.”
That person teaches at a university.
Jeez, what a mess.
That person not only teaches there, but was awarded a degree, then hired at a university. The stupidity is both wide and deep.
ReplyDeleteAs conventional wisdom tells us, any degree or program with a 'studies' in its name is going to be leftist drivel.