TUSD students walk out of Tucson schools

by David Safier

It looks like TUSD students aren't planning to let the banning of MAS courses go quietly.

As the nation watches the Tucson Unified School District’s spiral into disarray, hundreds of students have walked out of their Tucson schools today in a coordinated protest against the banishment of the district’s acclaimed Mexican American Studies program.

Pouring into the downtown Tucson area from Pueblo, Cholla and Tucson high schools, among other institutions, the students brought their march to the offices of floundering Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) administrators.

This thing isn't over.

There's a certain irony here. Former MAS teachers are forbidden from teaching the lessons of Mexican-American history in their classrooms. Instead, the current chapter of that history is being acted out in the Arizona State Legislature, the Department of Education, TUSD and the streets of Tucson.