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Schools should prepare patriotic Americans, not revolutionaries
By Rick Schneider
Publisher

It‘s refreshing that in Graham and Greenlee counties it’s still acceptable to start community meetings and functions with the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer.

It’s also comforting that our classrooms are free of political correctness and radical agendas. Teachers here are preparing our students to be proud Americans.

The Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican/American Raza Studies program, on the other hand, is creating disenfranchised dissidents. The Raza program offers high school students courses in Chicano literature, social justice and history.

Rhonda Bodfield of the Arizona Daily Star reported that in order to save the controversial program, students and teachers prepared a PowerPoint presentation that showed the following pictures of items in the classroom that they thought were culturally insensitive:

“First up is a baseball poster, which they say should be soccer or rugby to validate other cultures. Next up flashes the Pledge of Allegiance and a patriotic poster featuring the Statue of Liberty, the American flag and an eagle.â€