The California school district of El Rancho is dropping its geography requirement and replacing geography with an ethnic studies requirement.  As nearly everyone understands by now, ethnic studies programs amount to government-funded racial polarization.  Glenn Beck and Dana Loesch won’t be able to fix that problem with teddy bears. As one brave teacher described the ethnic studies program he was part of: “The basic theme of the curriculum was that Mexican-Americans were and continue to be victims of a racist American society driven by the interests of middle and upper-class whites.” These programs are problem enough already, and now a legitimate educational subject is being pushed aside in favor of ethnic separatism.  So much for assimilation, so much for educational standards, and so much for diversity: 98% of the students in El Rancho school district are Hispanic. As I read the story about El Rancho, I was struck by how far we’ve gone...(Read Full Article)