State Rep. Debra Lekanoff’s recent commentary asked taxpayers to further fund anti-American education (“Lawmakers must provide equity to charter school kids,” The Herald, April 1). That is education which separates kids into various charter school “communities” based on learning styles, ethnicity, race, religion, sex, economic status or language so as to foster a sense of “we’re not like them.”
Lekanoff notes our state began funding charter schools in 2013. But says charter schools need more of our tax money to ensure separation from American culture. She argues that allocating more education dollars to charter schools would have the double benefit of lowering the quality of public education for the Global Minority (white skins) while ensuring the Global Majority remains broken into competing cultures. And, in the community Lekanoff comes from, there would be a third benefit, revenge on American culture for trying to “kill the Indian to save the (hu)man.”
Rather, state funding of charter schools 2013-present should be deemed a failed experiment. Standardized test scores prove student learning has steadily decreased in traditional and charter schools; even beyond the decline started when President Reagan eliminated the traditional liberal arts curriculum. Continuing to separate K-12 students only serves to tear society apart by fostering an “us and them” mentality American public education was instituted to eliminate.
Paul Heckel
Snohomish
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