Parents upset over two schools pushing controversial video, book related to immigrants

Parents upset over two schools pushing controversial video, book related to immigrants


(The Center Square) – The father of a Federal Way High School student is raising concerns about a recent school assembly related to Hispanic Heritage Month.

“He came home and he was just upset,” Nathan Bindara said about his son, who is a student at FWHS. “He said, ‘Dad, can I be excused from assemblies?’ Then he explained there was a video they were showing that upset him. I asked for clarification, and he told me they were saying you can’t be illegal if you’re native or Mexican, and I was like, wow, that’s ridiculous.”

The video, linked to a Facebook page belonging to Native Cultures Consortiums, opens with a woman saying, “Mexicans are Native Americans.”

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“Before there were passports and fences and flags, my people were here,”

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