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Sex and Grades Teachers in my time taught math, and science and history. We never cared if they were single, or married or divorced. It never even crossed our minds to ask... if they were dating, as that was too personal on every level. We just wanted to know what questions would be... on the test, with the rest of everything we would really need to know before we had to go... out into the real world. Keep your rainbow flags at home. Don't drag your laundry to school. There is toilet paper on your shoe, look down and remove it. If you are confused, go back to the place you began. Ask your own mother to try again. as she failed to express how much you meant to her, or anyone else. As my mother already told me the truth. I am exactly who I am supposed to be, I don't need you to judge me, you see. I have been blessed and made whole. I have been surrounded by family and friends. I don't know what it is to be lost, but if I am or become so, I know that the Lord, will find me, and show me again... that I am his. As for school, and a talking mule... I want to learn what is important. What is important for my own life. I need to know how to spell my name, and address. How to count, and how to read through and between the lines of the news, spoken all over, in the name of freedom... over woke-ism, be a teacher, not a preacher of darkness and twisted lies.

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Date: 7/16/2022 9:00:00 PM
Your mother was right... But today, the kids don't have mothers or fathers or ministers who guide them and teach them right from wrong... The parents have ceded child-raising to the public school -- Oy, Vey!! -- and the Church is all but dead for most Americans. Hence, the message of your poem...
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Date: 7/15/2022 4:33:00 PM
Hello Ann, you have spoken out vey well. You have said what is on your mind through poetry. I do agree. Hugs.
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Date: 7/15/2022 3:09:00 PM
Excellent commentary, Ann. As far as I know, the teachers in my family are still working very heard to give kids a good background in reading, writing, math, science, etc. They tell me most of the claptrap on the news is about nothing happening in their particular schools. I have yet to find an elementary school that is teaching CRT, a theory that is, as far as I know, a graduate level concern in sociology, psychology, and history.
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