http://www.sfgate.com/cgi...2008/09/20/BAE51319J0.DTL
You really have to look for it, it's kinda buried.
You really have to look for it, it's kinda buried.
The ethnic studies pilot program - which is offered at Lincoln and Balboa high schools - is supposed to be the first of a four-year sequence that would later
include service learning, an internship and a leadership project.
At Lincoln, 45 students are taking the course. At Balboa, 14 students sat in teacher Wentworth Houston's ethnic studies course Wednesday.
During the hour class, they talked about slavery, housing prices and ethnic stereotypes. A few had chosen to take the course. Others opted for it after they
couldn't get into a preferred elective.
Jacqueline Gamez landed there unhappily after she couldn't get into a ninth-grade Spanish class, her counselor choosing ethnic studies for her.
None of the students knew the course was a JROTC replacement.
In fact, Houston - who helped create the curriculum over the past year - didn't know it was the pilot program until June. On Friday, he had no idea the
course was supposed to lead off the four-year leadership sequence.
"We're actually being used," he said, his voice filled with astonishment. "Ethnic studies committee members don't support using the
course as a replacement and don't support doing away with JROTC. They got the wrong group."
