Tucson USD bans Shaekespeare's Tempest, Chicano Studies books

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7. I grew up in that district.

In kindergarten I went to the white school for my area. 1st grade, I went to the newly "integrated" school 8 blocks away from the white school (they took all the poor "white" kids and put them in the shitty schools, and took all the wealthy non-white kids into the formerly "white" schools)..... in 1978. (Yes, they've been under desegregation for over 33 years, now, and didn't *start* until the late 70's). Lots of crazy busing, weird budget shifts, and changes in programming over the years just to try to level things out (the second high school I settled at, eventually, was a fine-arts-astronomy-auto magnet high school).... so yeah, this fight has been going on for quite a while, and I was in the thick of it.

As far as Holder acting, or not acting, are you suggesting DoJ determine curricula and materials? That's what this particular battle is (on a legal level) over, and whether or not the curricula and materials academically sound.

Here's some more detail, from a Tucson virtual "newspaper" (it's staffed by journalists, but only internet published):
http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/011012_tusd_ethnic_studies/tusd-axes-ethnic-studies/
http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061511_ethnic_studies/huppenthal-tusds-ethnic-studies-violate-law-audit-says-otherwise/
They've been running a whole series on this, with lots of documentation, available briefs, the whole "real reporting" thing.

Basically, in order to "get legal", they need to change from "Mexican studies" to "Minority Studies", and teach it in such a way that learning that your ancestors were raped and murdered by waves of European migrants isn't something you should resent.