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Dear Editor:
I’m sure it’s disappointing for many Indiana families with school age children when the state legislature can’t find the courage and resolve to push through even a compromised Curriculum Bill to protect children and give parents a voice.
The idea being pushed that it’s somehow threatening to teachers for parents to have expectations and want transparency is nonsense.
I learned early in my business career that we all have customers, internal as well as external, and we all have bosses. Both children and their parents are the school system’s customers. If you feel threatened by your customer, you’re probably doing something you shouldn’t be doing.
I’d like to say to parents this is just another bump in the road. It should now be abundantly clear that you must get involved with school board elections and recall where necessary. I also believe this is an opportunity for county and state political organizations to provide voters with their school board candidates’ philosophy and specific position on these controversial subjects and resultant classroom materials.
All candidates for public office should be required to identify party affiliation, once again, providing transparency!
Finally, I’d like to share a letter that best captures my feeling on this important matter from Noah Bloomberg of Chicago who recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal: “It’s a shame there’s no Geneva Convention for the culture wars. The progressive left has stationed children at the front lines of its battle for a woke revolution. During the COVID era, children have borne the brunt of the collateral damage. I hope primary education becomes a central issue in the midterm elections. We’ve seen too many casualties in the past two years.”
George Hodgson
Noblesville
Interestingly, the College Board has said it will remove highly popular AP programs from schools which ban the teaching of the topics listed in HB 1134. Passage of such legislation would remove all schools in Indiana from these programs of distinction. What a shame.
Across America, we already lost a generation or two of our children to liberal indoctrination, led or allowed by ideological School Board members. Everyone, parent and taxpayer, wanting transparency from their schools while receiving well taught state-approved curricula are immediately painted as racist, terrorist or both by the left. Don’t be afraid of them; that’s exactly how they’ve been winning for the past 2 years. We are far, far behind. GET INVOLVED before it becomes a total loss forever.