Arizona

[asterroc]

In case you missed it the first time, Arizona education is going down the drain, and now there's a second reason. I worry for the baby of a couple friends of mine who live in Arizona.

1) K-12 teachers with "accents" will be "removed" from the classroom. This is based on a misinterpretation of federal law requiring teachers to be "fluent" in English.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2365

2) A new law bans ethnic studies classes, claiming they "promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, [and] promote resentment of a particular race or class of people".
http://www.cyberdrumm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26:welcomeunderachieving-schools&catid=6&Itemid=40

I'm looking forward to visiting Arizona in the future, where I'm sure the children will be learning proper British English due to removing all teachers with American accents, and where their minds will not have been sullied by all those White Studies classes. </bitter>

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I'm constantly shocked by the dichotomy between the fact that you and blue102 and her husband all live there, and them doing stuff like this.

At least this only applies to K-12, so you'll just be getting ignorant students in your classes, not worrying about your own job - yet. Considering how so many conservatives want to pull higher ed into national exit testing and such, I wouldn't rest easy just yet if I were you.

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

Not resting easy, nope.

You forget I grew up in a country under martial law. Political decisions can make for wacky, wacky worlds.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Anywhere you pick, there will be reasonable people that you'll like and agree with that live there.