![]() It did not matter my age, whether I was a young, middle aged or old, playtime many times ended with a hazardous incident. And the incident was usually my fault. When I tried to play basketball with my son, I received a painful welt as his knee came into contact with my leg. I now personally understand Clint Eastwood’s famous "Dirty Harry" words: “A man’s gotta know his limitations.” My dad quickly put a towel over my injured eye and took me to Doc Boone’s home office. I overheard Doc tell my dad, “It's a good thing you put this towel over your eye. If he had lost any of the fluid from his eye he might have been blinded.” I guess the embarrassment of baby blue stitches was better than losing the sight of this one eye. The one who was "it" came around the other side. The front of my head smacked into the top of his head and the place above one of my eyes let go with a torrent of red. I was 9 when we played tag outside our Ludington, Michigan, house one evening. The free spot was located at an outside corner basement green door. I came around one side trying to reach the free spot before being tagged. I was reminded of the fact this week as I was playing with one of my young granddaughters and ended up with a slice cut to my lower lip. It was either her fingernail or my own was the culprit. When things become bloody, it doesn’t matter who’s at fault. Stopping the red flow is the immediate need. I found the lip is one of the most difficult locations to place a Band-Aid. Is this what we want for our children? I think not.Īnytime I play my personal bodily health is at risk. Phrases such as “nobody knows better what our kids need to succeed than their parents” sound appealing until you realize that they are false flags allowing parents to block learning about such things as minority history and culture, LGBT+ issues, science-driven research, other religions, and sex education that helps children avoid sexual predators.ĭaily in Ottawa County, we see the educational destruction threatened by “empowered parents” who want to institute Florida-type education policies - policies that put children at an educational competitive disadvantage. DeShone makes much of “empowering parents,” of parental control of their children’s education. What can’t be remediated is a student’s loss of a beloved parent, sibling, or grandparent, which most definitely effects student academic performance resulting in “catastrophic learning loss.” To not understand this is either deliberate ignorance, callous indifference, or both Ms. But students live with high-risk parents and siblings, and vulnerable grandparents whose lives were saved, and properly funded and managed public schools can help students make up those losses. Of course, Michigan reading and math scores fell after COVID-19, as did those of other states, and yes it was in part due to school closures and remote learning. The tutoring programs, reading scholarships, and opportunity scholarships she touts would strip money from public schools and further exacerbate the “catastrophic learning loss” that she claims concerns her. ![]() DeShone is using other means to implement DeVos’s Michigan Constitutional initiative to use public funds to support private schools, an initiative that was roundly defeated by Michigan voters. More: My Take: New education dept puts bigger bureaucracy between students, success She is the executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project, a front organization funded by Betsy DeVos, for those advocating the use of state tax dollars to fund private schools, religious schools, and schools for the children of wealthy families. DeShone’s guest column is both deceptive and disingenuous. ![]()
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