Tucson USD bans Shaekespeare's Tempest, Chicano Studies books

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82. Conflating two categories of topics/books.

The state said that the MAS program had to be canned as it was.

That means either disposing of it or revising it to come into compliance with the way the law was interpreted. USD's choice.

They chose.

Most of the other things on the list are being disposed of on the USD's initiative. Perhaps out of an abundance of caution, a real concern by the administrators that they are doing wrong. Perhaps out of an abundance of caution by the legal cumquats that work for the USD. Or perhaps in a fit of pique by pouting administrators--"If we can't have the program we want, we'll ban everything that *might* run afoul of the law." In any event, this isn't the *state's* interpretation but the way the local USD is interpreting the law and the way the state interpreted it.

It pays to keep the two sets of things separate, otherwise we're saying that the local USD folk have the exact same set of criteria and intent as the people who promulgated the law in the first place. They're different in nature and disposition and a real injustice is done in stereotyping the Tucson USD folk in that way.