Letter to the Editor: State’s Public Education System Insulated From Parental Input

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After reading the story regarding transgender policy in the Chehalis School District in The Chronicle’s June 17 edition, I was made starkly aware of how Washington state public education policy formation has become incredibly insulated from parental input.

My heart goes out to the concerned parents who are resisting this inappropriate sex education program with its woke, transgender blindness to obvious biological realities.

But you are fighting against the inevitable since these things have been mandated by the state. The local schools have no choice but to comply or they will lose funding necessary to maintain operations.

However, you do have alternatives to this mandated insanity when it comes to your children’s education. You can homeschool them or send them to a private school. There are homeschooling cooperatives in Lewis County to assist those who opt for the former and there are at least two private Christian schools in the Twin Cities to meet the needs of those for who homeschooling is not practical. I volunteer at the Centralia Christian School, so I can speak first-hand to the quality of the educational environment there. At Centralia Christian School, the kids get quality academic training combined with loving structure flowing out of the school’s Biblically-based interdenominational Christian perspective.



If enough parents pull their kids out of the public schools, per student state reimbursements will start falling. Maybe then parents will again be given an ear with regard to curriculum and policies.

 

Steve Trent

Centralia