(Jewish Group) Latest salvo in ethnic studies curriculum: Its writers want no part of it

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Fed up with what they describe as concessions to “right-wing interest groups” and “pro-Israel lobbyists,” the originators of California’s ethnic studies model curriculum for high schools are now demanding their names be stripped from the final draft.

The announcement Tuesday by Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, one of the co-chairs of the advisory committee that oversaw the drafting of the controversial curriculum, indicates just how strongly the 18 committee members, made up of ethnic studies and social studies teachers and academics, oppose revisions made by the California Department of Education in the 18 months since the draft’s release 019/08/13/ethnic-studies-curriculum-needs-substantial-revisions-officials-say/ in 2019.

During that time, the CDE has received a flood of complaints from Jewish groups opposing the curriculum’s anti-Israel content; others, including the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times, saw the first version as overly ideological, jargon-heavy, one-sided and ultimately inappropriate for high school students. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and other public officials expressed serious concerns about the first draft.

Tintiangco-Cubales informed an estimated 2,000 attendees of the decision during a Zoom forum organized by the S.F.-based Arab Resource and Organizing Center called “The Fight for Ethnic Studies in California.” The event featured speeches from nine professors and activists influential within the discipline, including famed activist and author Angela Davis.

Tintiangco-Cubales, a professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University, said the determination was accompanied by “outrage” that “some of the loudest voices being heard, and the people making decisions about what ethnic studies should and should not be in the State of California, have never even taken an ethnic studies class.”

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