Who is really trying
to help us?
United States is known for people
to teach a certain way especially in Republican based states like Arizona. When
educators try to encounter another method for the benefit of students, people
will judge. Mexican American Studies (MAS) was a class that I read about it and
was a class that I would be excited to take because it’s different from the
classes I usually take. For John Huppenthal (the superintendent of the schools
in Arizona) to take away the class because he feels like it’s a class to resent
Caucasian people seems very absurd to me. The class was to teach students to
provide a voice and to teach them about independency. John Huppenthal blames
the teachers because of the resentment from students but I think the students
are finally sticking what they believe in and what is wrong with that? Students can finally be aware what the government
is actually doing like banning a class. I think Huppenthal wants us to be
blinded from the truth and keeps us ignorant so we can’t justify and criticize the
actions of the government.
He also claims that the class
presents ethic conflict and discrimination in U.S in a biased way. If he claims
the class to bias then why won’t he ban other classes that are biased? For
example, World history books have been known to be very biased towards the
Islamic people. Many textbooks show lack
of important information about Islamic terrorist especially on 9/11 which could
change someone’s opinion completely. I also noticed the articles I read about
the government thoughts about certain books being “biased” because they favor
other countries are actually not biased. In fact, the articles I read about the
government’s opinion are very misleading and are very one-sided. They angle the
conversations so you can see their views but don’t show the opposing side. The
history books itself can be very evasive; it also doesn’t help the history
books are made by all Caucasian males.
Overall I think Huppenthal shouldn’t
ban a class because he feels intimidated by students speaking out. He should at
least let them vote or ask them why they want the class because if he takes
actions in his own hands, students may feel powerless because they didn’t get
there opinion in it. That’s why I think many people are frustrated by this
because they decide what doesn’t happen in school and what does happen in
schools and that’s why Republicans that
have shown to be very biased and favoring Christianity which is completely
wrong. American should be not favor anything because we are all different and
we should embrace that. We shouldn’t accept people who they are and don’t judge
people because they have different view then us. I experienced people criticize
what I had to say because they feel like their views are better than mine and I
think that’s also wrong. I found this random quote on Facebook that guided me
to become a better person, “Our happiness lies in the happiness of other
people. Give them their happiness; you will get your own happiness.”
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