Thread by @PaulJonna

BREAKING - we reached a settlement with the State of CA, and they will be PERMANENTLY REMOVING the Aztec chants from the Ethnic Studies Model Cirriculum and paying $100,000 towards our attorneys’ fees. My statement is in the thread below:

We filed this lawsuit after we discovered that California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, a resource guide for local school districts, included prayers to Aztec gods – the same deities that were invoked when the Aztecs worshipped with human sacrifices.

The Aztec prayers at issue – which seek blessings from and the intercession of these demonic forces – were not being taught as poetry or history.

Rather, the ESMC instructed students to chant the prayers for emotional nourishment after a “lesson that may be emotionally taxing or even when student engagement may appear to be low.” The idea was to use them as prayers.

In fact, the co-chair of California’s ESMC, Tolteka Cuauhtin, wrote that Christians committed “Theocide” to oppress marginalized groups – and the response should be to “regenerate indigenous spiritual traditions.”

The subject Aztec prayers, which invoke these deities by name, appear to be part of Tolteka’s proposed solution.

Fortunately, the parties were able to work out an informal resolution – and the State Board of Education and California Department of Education voluntarily agreed to remove the prayers from the ESMC. The State agreed to do this while continuing to dispute any and all liability.

Nonetheless, we’re pleased that the prayers have been officially removed from the ESMC.

All local school districts in California – especially those still working with Mr. Tolteka Cuauhtin – should follow the lead of the State and are hereby on notice that they should immediately remove these Aztec prayers from their Ethnic Studies curricula.

Our team of lawyers will aggressively pursue civil litigation against any local school district that violates the Constitution and incorporates these Aztec prayers in class – particularly now that the State has excised them from the ESMC.

Article covering the settlement: thecollegefix.com/settlement-cal…

And Thomas More Society press release: thomasmoresociety.org/aztec-prayers-…