Last week I blogged about the Arizona legislature passing a bill that would ban “a school district or charter school from including courses or classes that either promote the overthrow of the United States government or promote resentment toward a race or class of people.”
State Superintendent for Public Instruction Tom Horne said, “Traditionally, the American public school system has brought together students from different backgrounds and taught them to be Americans and to treat each other as individuals, and not on the basis of their ethnic backgrounds. This is consistent with the fundamental American value that we are all individuals, not exemplars of whatever ethnic groups we were born into. Ethnic studies programs teach the opposite, and are designed to promote ethnic chauvinism.”
Yesterday, Governor Jan Brewer signed the bill into law.
Last month, the government signed into a law a measure that requires police to check the citizenship or residency status of anyone they reasonably suspect might be an illegal alien. Under the new law, it’s also a crime to transport illegal aliens or hire day laborers.
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