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"  The Tucson Unified School District came under much heat after its move to cut Mexican American studies classes. Now, the district hopes to restore them in the fall. Guess people bitched enough for them to reconsider.  Can we please talk about why it was shut down in the first place? Latinos are one of the fastest growing population, and more than three quarters of Latinos living in the US are of Mexican descent, according to the Pew Hispanic Research Center. Why then, are schools full of options for African American studies, European studies, etc., but limited on those for Latino studies?  I applaud them for trying to restore classes, but say screw them for ever eliminating them in the first place. Then again, a lot of discrimination against Latinos lately does not surprise me in any way. The fact is, we&amp;#039;re here and are a huge part of this country&amp;#039;s culture anyway. Why not educate the our children about it so that we are less ignorant about what it means to me a Latino in the US? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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