Open Letter to NC Representatives about CRT

 Dear Representative, 

As a grandparent of 3 beautiful children, one of which will be school age next year, I would like to ask you a favor.  The air is filled with information about the education of our children, what they will be learning, what they should be learning, and what they are learning presently.  As an American citizen my entire life, I know that our history is filled with human superiority as well as our iniquities.  It appears we are back in the same battles we fought in 1861-65 and the again in the 50s and 60s.   

This country, throughout its history, has been the destination of choice for people around the world desiring an opportunity for freedom, and ability to raise their families in a place where they could be happy, seek their dreams, and prosper.  Nowhere else in this world can anyone say this, but as of late, America has become a very violent, divisive county where the government, the mainstream media, and our education system seem to be pulling its citizens apart.  Our college students are rioting in the streets, destroying property, businesses, and basically disturbing the pursuit of happiness that is a distinct part of our declaration of Independence.   

Now, the NEA is attempting to change how our children from grades K-12 look at each other and themselves!  Instead of the soul of a child, they seem to be concentrating on the color of their skin!  America is teaching our children to hate, disrespect, and disown the very values our country was founded upon.  I have listened to Ms. Becky Pringle, president of the NEA speak about their directives and I read their Item 39 for the 21-22 school year.  Plans of national days of action, joining allegiance to BLM in schools and honoring a movement that has destroyed property and has not been known to be a peaceful organization with its members yelling at diners at restaurants and burning police cars and businesses.  This would not be an appropriate attachment for educational purposes for the children, much less communities. 

This letter today is a request that you consider my point of view and understand that to best educate our children it is not by showing them their differences, but to show them what they have in common, our rich heritage as a country desired by so many around the world.  To teach them about the declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, the Federalist papers, how the designers of our republic worked and died for this country.  They should learn the great testimonies of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Booker T. Washington, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Dr. Ben Carson, among so many more showing our children that one can accomplish almost anything they desire, if they only work hard for it.  Get rid of the divisive, tyrannical curricula of slavery-ridden history, we fought that war twice! Everyone can achieve their goals.  Everyone, but no one should ever be taught to hate others or even themselves due to their skin color...no one. 

My family is completely against any type of Critical/Culturally Race/responsive Theory/teaching in our public schools.  The children must also NOT be wearing masks. 

 

Respectfully, 

Ebeth