(As sent, spelling mistakes included, with a correction noted for clarity. Some links added here, for context.)
Subject: A tip about American education
As a former Republican, a current parent and as a professional with experience in education in a red state, I am writing to inform the current Gov of Virginia, that I am disgusted by your transparently distasteful, cynical and disrespectful intimidation of teachers, who have been serving Virginia’s children and youth through hardship.
In the state that saw the truly divisive, violent (and murderous) Unite The Right rally, one would think you would, like the once colonial power the British, respect the factual statement that “Black Lives Matter,” or at least, warn against racism and far right terrorism rather than shutting down honest and free discussion of current issues that must be processed in order to move forward from grief.
One would think humility would be in order, given your political party members electing an abuser and inciting a lynch mob who issued very visible death threats in the form of a gallows at our US Capitol Jan 6, ‘2[1].
Many people in Virginia are owed far better than the discomfort and pain you have added to their trauma by minimization of their part in our history. National rebuke is absolutely needed for authoritarian abuses like your anti-teacher tip line. It has been pranked in protest because otherwise it will be used to abuse good teachers, who have enough to deal with right now. Good parents support teachers during these times and value education. We aren’t all narcissistic abusers like the new Daughters of the Confederacy aka Moms For Liberty ["LIBERTY?"]. Americans want our children to be free to learn from multiple perspectives.
Foolishness like yours is responsible when teachers quit and Virginian school children are handed a low quality education [added: cf-the importance of critical thinking skills, permitted by a discussion of multiple perspectives]. You may single handedly destroy your own future economy and community by racism and ignorant selfishness. Haven’t teachers dealt with enough during the pandemic? What about the vast majority of reasonable American parents, who want common sense facts about our sadly genocidal past taught to our kids, plus sensible safety measures in a pandemic, without having to deal with violent bullies threatening their childrens’ schools over pathetic trivia?! How is encouraging abusers to nitpick how teachers teach or manage covid, in any way productive?!
You shouldn’t just shut down your tip line, you should apologize and resign, because you are unfit to lead free Americans. You lack respect for communities you serve.
The fact you are undermining districts who need masking requirements in place for their own safety, that you arrogantly enable the worst bullies in your society to brazenly discriminate against vulnerable children and staff with health reasons that make unmasked environments life threatening, tells me your pro life stance is nothing more than an abominable lie. I for one will not be fooled again.
You and all like you shame US with your narcissistic abuse and racist intimidation tactics. Come after teachers’ jobs: see if we stop ta[l]king freely in our communities. You will make professional martyrs of the very people you seek to intimidate into silence. It certainly will backfire on you. Truth prevails. So does freedom. You should learn from history.
Free people will not stand for this antisocial balderdash.
Thankfully, your kind of abuse is being rejected by many free people worldwide, who decide to love their neighbor and respect the needs of the most vulnerable in their communities as equal to their own, subordinating their preferences to love their neighbor in actions and in truth.
We could be having a moment of healing and conciliation in our nation, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Nothing you are doing here is patriotic. Patriotism means you love all your fellow citizens. Your tip line is just abuse.
I would like to report YOUR NARCISSISTIC ABUSE to the state of Virginia as insane cruelty, creating divisions that only play into the hands of enemies domestic and foreign.
“If anyone in government serves their own interests at the expense of the greater social good, my message is simply, you will be gone.”
Apologize and resign, therefore.
Let freedom ring,
Melody Kay Young
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She's right (see image below); these Republicans are absolutely wrong.
Republican racists have made it really hard to be a parent or a teacher these days. I will absolutely Never Forget what they have put US through.
May racist fools leave US in peace.
I want better for my children.
The time has come to deal with actual trauma.
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