Crissy Pratt Will Bring Balanced Perspective To School Board
Dear Editor,
This letter is in reference to Crissy Pratt, candidate for Guilford County Board of Education, District 2.
I have worked with closely with Crissy over the past year and have several observations that I believe are considerations for her strong leadership potential. Crissy is the best person for this seat for several reasons: She is a very intelligent, highly trained educator. I’ve not met anyone as experienced in creating new programs for primary and secondary education. She understands the complexities of leading a school board. Finally, as a mom and a career educator, she will bring a balanced perspective to the role.
District 2 voters will be glad they chose Crissy to represent them.
Robert Millican
Fed Up With City Council
Dear Editor,
I am writing to you because I’m fed up with this pansy of a city council. Spending money on these pallet sheds for the homeless. We are down 150-200 police and this is what’s on the list. Where is the money going that’s allocated for these cops?
And another thing fines for garbage cans. How petty. We need better leadership in this city. This mayor has to go.
We citizens are not safe in this city.
M Boltz
GCS Is Sexualizing Our Children
Dear Editor,
Does GCS believe protecting childhood innocence is detrimental to children?
According to the media specialist at Northern Guilford High School, the answer is yes. I attended the MTAC hearing at NGHS on June 3, as well as the District Review hearing on October 3 in which a parent challenged a library book containing explicit sexual content.
The media specialist presented her reasons for keeping the book in the library by using the following resources. Children, Sexuality and Sexualization, Emma Renold, Jessica Ringrose, R. Danielle Egan Innocence, Knowledge and The Construction of Childhood, K. H. Robinson Act Your Age. A Cultural Construction of Adolescence, Nancy Lesko.
The media specialist quoted K.H. Robinson “Socio-cultural taboos around sexuality have resulted in its being viewed as difficult knowledge – that is, knowledge that many adults find challenging to address in their own lives, but especially with children. Childhood innocence can function as a convenient excuse for adults and parents not to address sexual knowledge with children.
“The social construction of childhood innocence which prevails in Western countries, and in some developing countries, is detrimental to children’s wellbeing and their development as competent, responsible, resilient, critical thinking subjects with agency in their lives…
“Through the denial of accurate information and open discussions in the area of sexuality, often in the name of protecting children’s innocence, adults have intensified children’s vulnerability to exploitation and abuse and to undermining of their health and wellbeing more generally in the area of sexuality.”
Why is GCS sexualizing our children and what point did GCS embrace “childhood innocence is detrimental to children’s wellbeing?”
- M. Adams
Uh, Mr. Adams……are you talking about High School students being sexualized because of a book? High School? The place where many teens become sexually active? Many without having the ‘talk’ with an adult? You mean High School where many kids only education of sex is porn?
You can teach abstinence and stick you head in the sand all you want…it’s a book. On a shelf in the library. That has real factual information on sexuality. Versus the place most kids learn about sexuality, TV, Internet, Social Media, Social Groups, etc…
Maybe you need to grow up a bit yourself Mr Adams.
The devil loves to destroy the perfect beautiful innocence of our little children.
So do your government schools.
Ditto.
The primary purpose of Guilford County Schools is reading, writing and arithmetic, A review of the academic accomplishments of the students receiving their education from receiving their education from GCS would indicate they’re failing at their primary purpose. Until students K-12 are all reading, writing and doing math at their grade level they will struggle to succeed. Children are not wards of the state (not yet anyway) Thank you for your critique of parents and Western civilization let the parents raise the children.
Anyone of the adult persons that thinks it’s ok to present to children in lower grades about anything they pertaining to a sexual nature is a person whose elevator does not get off the first floor. If Chris is one of these guys then he needs to get a grip and get off their case and let them be children before all those hormones start raging and they began acting out with the members of the opposite sex .
Chris you do understand that there are male and female as the only two sexes!!!!!