As I watched the attack on our capital, I saw things most Americans did not.

[usaf-vet]

86. You should be able to agree that public education has been disrupted by constant pressure from...

... outside sources since you started teaching.

In the early 1960s, I had to take Civics, where we learned about our government, Constitution, how laws were passed, how voting was one person, one vote, all the things that made our country work. Civics of the 1960s are rarely taught in public schools today.

I had to take several science classes in high school. My favorite was Biology and how living things work. That evolution was the slow and steady way living things evolved to survive in the changing environment around them. Darwin describes these changes as a slow process over generations to adapt to survive. The bible offers a different view, so Evolution and Darwinism are the enemies of the biblical views.

NOW the latest outside forces want to deny evolution because it doesn't match the bible's view. They threaten to write laws that will prevent teachers from teaching evolution and to fine them $10,000 if they are found guilty.

You are right; you do get blamed, but you don't get to write the rules that govern what you teach. You are forced to comply with school board policies that outside pressures have bastardized the policies. Pressures that, more often than not, are being funded by ideological groups who want to push their agenda nationwide.

For example, see ALEC: https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/What_is_ALEC%3F#Is_it_nonpartisan_as_claimed.3F

Thank you for the work you do, and thank you to the tens of thousands of other teachers who show up every day to teach.