I would like to start off by giving background information about who Lupita Garcia is as well as what MEChA is. This is my response to the article and the whole situation it explains.
Lupita Garcia is Assistant Superintendent of TUSD and now the supervisor as the MAS program as well. Lupita Garcia was made supervisor by John Pedicone ( TUSD Superintendent ) Lupita Garcias view on ethnic studies was clear; she wanted the classes to be abolished, but she was made supervisor any way. This was a tactic to dismantle the program.
MEChA- Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano(a) De Aztlan, a student organization that promotes higher education, historia and cultura.
In this article it explains how Assistant Superintendent Garcia and Supervisor of MAS is still following the racist attacks on MEChA. Russel Pearce is one of those attackers that claim MEChA as a group that teaches students to be terrorists. Therefore they should be forbidden to be operated on a campus.
I don't agree with the attacks, nor do I agree that they should be banned. I have been involved in MEChA before and never were did i feel like i was being taught to be a terrorist. What we really did was follow up on the news and what was going on. In the MEChA I was involved in at Rincon High School was pretty small but we strives to make a documentation about laws in Arizona.
I also don't agree with Garcia being in charge of the Mexican American Studies department. It is clear she doesn't support them in any way. There is clear proof and she has said it her own self, so why is someone who hates a program, in charge of it? First it was Ethnic Studies in TUSD and now they area attacking MEChA.
It is getting to the point where anything that isn't strictly "American" will be banned and looked down upon. It's still not obvious that Arizona has a rich history because it once was Mexico.
