i’m reading about the controversy over Tuscon Unified School District’s Mexican-American studies program (in which the school board tried to make the classes elective) and i’ve noticed something interesting
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on the one hand several of the students went to pretty great lengths to protest the resolution (and i think students getting involved of the politics of the schools they go to is super based)
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but there also seems to be this attitude that the classes *must* be taught, and that they *must* be mandatory (the resolution, after all, was only to make them elective) as if you can’t learn things outside of school
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here are some quotes from students involved in the protests (edited because twitter)
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“Without our actions, the right to our history would be taken.” “…we are critical thinkers that will not have our essential history that connects us to who we are be taken away from us.” “We felt that if we didn’t do something [on April 26] then our history would be erased.”
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i’m reading this for a chicano studies class i’m taking, a class which has a lot of chicano students
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many of them, when they introduced themselves at the beginning of the year, said something along the lines of that they didn’t have any chicano studies classes offered in high school, so they ‘weren’t able’ or ‘didn’t have the opportunity to’ learn about their history
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now maybe this was bullshit, for which i don’t blame them or maybe it had never occurred to them to read some books, watch some lectures on youtube, etc this all very... interesting. extraordinary, even
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something something ssc if kindergartens added a "learn to walk" unit in a generation people would be aghast at the idea that kids learned any other way
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Replying to @eigenrobot @acidshill
This one? Either way, it fits.https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/11/self-serving-bias/ …
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