Posted on 08/04/2014 3:09:18 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
El Rancho Verde Unified School District will stop requiring its high-school students to take geography and instead require them to take a class on diversity and inclusion.
ERUSD president Aurora Villon said the class is necessary because minority students “need to feel validated.”
“When you negate their culture, they feel less than other students,” she said in an e-mail to Whittier Daily News.
98 percent of the district’s students are Hispanic.
The class will “expose . . . . students to global perspectives and inclusion of diversity,” according to ERUSD vice president Jose Lara.
The district plans to have the program implemented by the 2015–16 school year.
Exactly! We used to talk about the “melting pot.” But now they talk about the “mosaic” that is America!
That is the problem! Instead of melting into one culture centered around American history, America’s success, and all that America offers, the left and schools want all of these people to keep their native culture(s), IGNORING the importance of having these people become one-people in love with and supporting their new country!
Geography implies borders.
When I was in school (1952-1964) we had both Social Studies (how the government works) and geography.
Pretty hard to have an informed opinion on foreign affairs when you can’t find Europe or Japan etc on a map....
“Pretty hard to have an informed opinion on foreign affairs when you can’t find Europe or Japan etc on a map....”
I used to tell people that my name was Bern and because they ALWAYS failed to understand what I said I’d add, “The capital of Switzerland.” Yesterday the clerk filling out a form looked me in the eye and said, “I never knew that. Tell me, how many people can name the capital of Switzerland? That’s by Norway, right?” He wasn’t joking.
Not to worry, geography must not be taught much if at all if my recent experiences are any gauge.
Not one of the 5 teenagers that I was with recently at Philmont knew where Panama was, or even remotely what continent it was part of.
Pretty damned sad state of affairs, teaching kids to be illiterate idiots.
We don’t know where African Americans come from but just know they are oppressed. Maybe they come from Africa-America.
So when they teach diversity, that means white or American culture, right?
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