Efforts to establish a "Mexican American Studies Program" in TUSD must stop. These efforts are of limited Academic and Historic value and have divided the Community as reflected by a polarized TUSD Board.
Far more Instructive would be the establishment in the TUSD Curriculum of a "History of the United States and Arizona Studies Program" with the major component on the Genocidal Policies Directed at Native Americans by the Spanish Speaking and Anglo Saxon Invaders into their Homeland!
"....The Americans of the United States achieved both results (to deprive Indians of their rights and their extermination) with marvelous ease, quietly, legally...To destroy human beings with greater respect for the laws of humanity would be impossible...." (Democracy in America, Alexis deTocqueville, 1835).
Francis Saitta
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