Letter to the Editor: Ways to give our culture back to our children

By Bill Phoenix, Charles City

To the faculty: At the beginning of the new school year so many letters and articles enumerate what we expect from our students. I would like to write an article concerning applications as thinking adults.

1) Find a nice clean bathtub and drown whole language, a silly system adopted in the ‘70s. It keeps our kids from being able to speak and write coherently.

2) Replace cute animals and yoga with actual moral education. Everybody gets hurt; that’s life. Five thousand years of Western literature can help young people understand that life is never fair, but it can always be good. From Mother Goose to the Talmud to Shakespeare to the writers of our time, we can give our students moral strength and courage.

3) We need to relax the silly USDA standards that have reduced our students’ lunches to sweet potatoes and carrot sticks. Doctors help up navigate our diets, not bureaucrats, and good food is always a part of a good culture.

4) And then, we must fight the ultimate evil: common core. I don’t have to explain this. Most teachers know the common core is wrong, but are afraid to fight. Time to get a little blood on our hands, all of us.

It is only after this battle that we will be able to give our culture back to our children.