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To the editor:

First, I want to thank you. Over the few years I have been here, you have graciously printed a number of my opinions and have rejected a number of others, and that is not only fair but your right to do so.

When I am frustrated, I have to write to the one paper that at least reaches some in our area, if not the rest of the state, feeling I have tried to do my part in addressing things that I feel are important to our country as a whole.

That is why I recently wrote a letter comparing the McCarthy era to now, and how the word racist instead of communist is ruining lives today.

I have often written that racism is a cancer, and it has no place in any society. However, today, racism is being used in a hateful way, fostering more division and hate and destroying what Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned.

I believe everyone should recognize what the BLM organization is doing and fight it before it destroys any resemblance of civility and fosters a divide that will be difficult to repair.

Its curriculum of critical race theory is now finding its way into many states and schools throughout the country. That, together with BLMs 1619 project, is fostering beliefs that are damaging to all children regardless of their race.

They, along with politicians, are finding racism in everything. Even climate change that the progressives are pushing are linking it to racial injustice. Nothing it seems is off the table.

Finally, when I read in the paper about the diversity program being implemented, the word that is frightening is equity. I keep asking what does that mean.

Well, yesterday I received an answer. Virginia is using the term critical practical theory to change its math curriculum. There no longer will be advance math classes until the 11th grade, and everyone will be in the same class, following along with a curriculum that everyone will be able to keep pace with.

This is also springing up in other schools.It may be too slow for many, but it is aimed at kids who have experienced greater success in the past, many believe primarily white and Asian.

However, I believe that is a misnomer. American students who are Black have experienced great success in math. As an example, I refer to the movie Stand by Me, which is about a teacher who taught calculus to kids in New York City.

They were very successful, so this theory that young kids who are Black cant learn math as well as others is insulting and untrue. This method will hamper all those who have exceptional skills in math regardless of their race.

Telling children who are Black that they cant learn math as well as others is not only harmful, but it fosters a belief of inferiority.

Ed Wagner

Spring Hill

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