Most of us believe that every child in our community should receive an honest and quality education, no matter the color of their skin, the amount of money their family has, the language they speak, their background, or where they call home.

But, becoming that kind of community depends on elected leaders fully funding every school, and ensuring every school has the resources they need to address root problems so that they can provide every student with a quality education, without exceptions.  This means addressing real challenges like:

• ensuring there is adequate funding to address the teacher shortage;
• it means ensuring teachers have what they need for individualized lesson plans; 
• kids have the mental health support they need;
• making certain our county is an attractive place for families and businesses by ensuring our public schools are invested in as much as any other community and state;
• and it means making sure every school doesn't just have the tech they need, but also ceilings that don’t fall on kids, working heat and air, and good lighting for learning.

But today, instead of addressing these real issues our students face, the same politicians who have blocked funding for our schools are pushing their extreme political agenda into our classrooms.  They’re trying to ban (or burn) books that deal with topics like Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington and the Civil Rights Movement, stoke fear based on what people look like or who they love, and they're threatening to sue or fine teachers just for doing their job.

We need leaders to know that being on the side of parents and students doesn't mean censoring accurate history lessons, denying children their freedom to learn, shaming children, withholding or diverting funding from our public schools, or suing teachers.   It means doing everything you can to support children in the classroom, like providing adequate funding to address the teacher shortage, individualized lesson plans, and mental health support for children.

We are calling on every elected official to keep the culture wars out of our classrooms and instead focus on providing every student, and every school with the resources they need, and in doing so make our community one where we respect and support each other across our differences and our schools' places where every child belongs and can thrive.

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