Mexican Americans Should Be Banned In Schools

The students who were part of the Mexican-American studies Program were not supportive of the curriculum being banned. In fact, some students were so opposed to the bill that they filed a law suit against that state of Arizona over the law. One student who was part of the law suit, Maya Arce, said that she thought that the students to come after her in school would greatly suffer without the ethnic studies class and claimed that the class would “help them throughout high school and the rest of their lives” (Planas). Another former student of the program, Kim Dominguez, said that she “would not be here right now if it was not for Mexican-American studies” and claims that the course helped her completely reshape her life (Robbins). It seems pretty apparent that students who have …show more content…
2281. One stakeholder stated in a report by the National Academic Educational Partners that the descendants of Mexicans are the largest Latino subgroup in the nation and that it is an “educational obligation” to include ethnic studies courses in school curriculums (20). One other stakeholder from the same report claims that “Culture is a major indicator in the ways in which individuals communicate, seek assistance, seek recognition, intellectually process and disseminate information and it significantly impacts the way individuals learn” (20). But, the class that allows all these things to be possible has been banned and there is a nothing to replace it. Among almost all the Tucson community stakeholders there is a trend of disappointment, disgust, and sadness. One stakeholder mentioned that their Mexican-American studies programs “followed the state English and social studies standards” (21). The classes adhered to all state standards for classes and still got removed. It seems that Tucson as a whole was opposed to H.B. 2281 and thought very highly of there Mexican-American studies courses and were disgruntled when it was taken