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K Bentley's avatar

Thank you for your article. I see many valid points. I am a public school teacher. I am also a strong religious conservative woman who has never peddled any anti-family or critical race theory on my students.

I simply want to point out what I believe to be good about public education. We serve the very poor and needy. We opened our school the third week of August and never closed. However, over 1/2 the students didn’t return due to the extensive fear mongering by the media. Little by little the students have been returning and what we are seeing is devastating. Their parents for the most part have not been teaching them. We have students who will be 2nd graders in 6 weeks who know 2 vowels and 4 consonants. We have kindergarteners who are addicted to devices and cry and scream because they need a fix. We are painstakingly under staffed with those who can help provide reading interventions as the gap widens! Every single day of my life is spent advocating for those children who need an education, who deserve to learn to read so that they can rise out of poverty and access the tools they need to not just survive, but thrive!

I’m aware of the evils inherent in education, I just wanted you to know that there are many, many of us “boots on the ground” professional teachers who get up each day to educate, not indoctrinate, our children because we love them! We care for them. We hope for them to have a bright future!

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Kimberly's avatar

Thank you again for another amazing article!!!

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