{"id":1553,"date":"2008-05-22T22:49:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T02:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2008-05-22T22:49:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T02:49:58","slug":"american-teacher-called-sell-out-for-resisting-racial-hatred-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/american-teacher-called-sell-out-for-resisting-racial-hatred-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"American  teacher called &#8220;sell-out&#8221; for resisting racial hatred curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>John A. Ward &#8212; Arizona Daily Star &#8212; Tucson  <\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Raza studies gives rise to racial hostility   <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;The Raza studies department has powerful allies in TUSD, on its governing board and in the U.S. House of Representatives and thus operates with much impunity. &#8212; Occasionally there are minor irritations from the state superintendent of public instruction and the Legislature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>&#8220;As an educator, I refused to be complicit in a curriculum that engendered racial hostility, irresponsibly demeaned America&#8217;s civil institutions, undermined our public servants, discounted any virtues in Western civilization and taught disdain for American sovereignty.<br \/>\nWhen I raised these concerns, I was told that I was a &#8220;racist,&#8221; despite being Hispanic. Acknowledging my heritage, the Raza studies staff also informed me that I was a vendido, the Spanish term for &#8220;sellout.&#8221; <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsoncitizen.com\/ss\/opinion\/85853.php\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John A. Ward &#8212; Arizona Daily Star &#8212; Tucson Raza studies gives rise to racial hostility &#8230;The Raza studies department has powerful allies in TUSD, on its governing board and in the U.S. House of Representatives and thus operates with much impunity. &#8212; Occasionally there are minor irritations from the state superintendent of public instruction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}