The Fourth Reich

2010 April 30
by SavageDem

Unbelievable. The Arizona Board of Education is banning teachers that have “heavy” accents from teaching English. They’re also eliminating funding for classes that “advocate ethnic solidarity” – aimed at eliminating the Mexican-American Studies Department in the Tucson school district.

…in a move that was more covert until the Wall Street Journal uncovered it, the Arizona Department of Education has told schools that teachers with “heavy” or “ungrammatical” accents are no longer allowed to teach English classes.

Full article at Huffington Post

Asking for papers (“Ihre papiere, bitte.”), arresting people based on their skin color, driving out teachers and eliminating education on a ethnic basis…takes you right back to 1937.

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