“It just upset me that this was what’s occurring . . . to see this disregard for America and their hatred towards it and their entitlement,” he said.
Tony Hill said an unusually disheartening day of substitute teaching Glendale middle-school students spurred him to write a letter to Senate President Russell Pearce.
He didn’t intend for that letter to be read on the Senate floor by Sen. Lori Klein, R-Anthem, or for it to become the center of an immigration legislation debate. He didn’t intend for it to become the focus of a public-records fight between Pearce and the media, or to find himself the center of media attention.
Read the teacher’s letter to Sen. Pearce
… In the letter, Hill said that a majority of students in that class refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance and when asked why told him “we are Mexicans and Americans stole our land.” He said “most” of the students wrote in papers that “they were in the country illegally, White Americans are racist, and that they came here for a better life.”
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