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Essay On First Amendment In School

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Growing up in public schools, I remember my 2 grade teacher Ms. Rosa will always tell us “Siempre tiene una voz, nunca se dejan que alguien le digan que aser, es nuestro derecho como gente que viven en los Estados Unidos. ” I can safely say that the I learn of the first amendment, through my early school path,I always said what I felt and never feared of being silenced. When I heard about the Tucson Unified school district situation, I felt that it was a straight fuck you to our rights. When a state decides to take action against our own history and tells us what we can or can’t learn is a violation of our first right. The first Amendment should be shown at its maximum in public schools, since limiting what type of books to read is creating a iron wall in our public schools. When I say Iron wall, it reminds me on how the state is trying to create a concentration camp with our education, limiting the things we can learn. Additionally, I feel that teachers should have the right to speak out on what really happen to our ancestors …show more content…

1 inaugurated its Mexican-American Studies Department in 1998. The teachers say that evaluations of their department “have consistently shown that students who take and complete … course offerings pass the state required AIMS test at higher rates, graduate from high school are higher rates, have improved grades and matriculate to college at high rates while decreasing in the areas of discipline, poor attendance or dropping out of high school.” After reading this article, I thought to myself that the fear of Latinos starting to lower dropping rates and increasing the rate of graduations in high schools brought fear. The fear that some of the Arizona community had, was for the fasted growing population in the United States to be improving on their education received and taking over a variety of jobs. Additionally, fearing that Latino/a’s will start understanding more their roots and start bringing social justice in a higher

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