“School Day”

 Monterey County Weekly – June 6, 2024

California’s draft Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum was written by a committee co-chaired by Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, the consultant who was later hired by Pajaro Valley Unified School District (“Ethnic studies contract causes a rift in PVUSD – and a community group,” May 30-June 5).

Tintiangco-Cubales’s 600-page draft contained just two references to the Holocaust. This was one of many reasons that Gov. Gavin Newsom referred to this draft as biased, bigoted and discriminatory and assured Jewish leaders that “It will never see the light of day.”

The state’s Instructional Quality Commission scrapped her draft, replacing it with a more inclusive, less biased model curriculum that included lessons about antisemitism. Not incidentally, Tintiangco-Cubales was furious about the changes and demanded that her name be removed from the final adopted model curriculum.

Doug Kaplan | Aptos

Note: Kaplan is a former PVUSD trustee.