Now that Illinois has mandated a moment of silence in public school classrooms, you can hear the complaints loud and clear.
Will Okun, a Chicago school teacher, has a great response in The New York Times:
Boy, are our legislators busy. I teach in an overcrowded classroom with Xeroxed books, no computers and limited supplies in a city where the black male graduation rate hovers significantly below 50 percent. And they give us silence?
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Instead of addressing the social conditions, funding shortfalls and inadequate schools that have caused the tragic state of education in America’s low-income communities, our legislators are instead promoting disguised prayer as their priority.
As one Illinois superintendent was quoted as saying, “We pray every day — that they [lawmakers] approve sending us our money.”
(Thanks to Joe for the link!)
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