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Feb 12, 2021Liked by Neal Moore

Neal, is a very common sense approach to let voters decide.

It is my hope that the council will see the wisdom and do so.

We don't need to be known has the city that went to the dogs in the middle of a pandemic.

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I had to google the 1619 Project because I had never heard of it. Why are schools teaching something put together by New York Times magazine? I’m very curious about this & thankful this was brought to my attention.

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Regarding House Bill 1231, Lowery said to KATV “Sometimes, the most we can do as legislators is to bring public awareness to an issue that people may not be aware of". To be fair to Lowery, it sounds like with bill 1231 and bill 1218, he was trying to bring awareness about these things being taught in our public schools. I don’t think he embarrassed himself, in fact, I think he made his point that our schools shouldn’t be teaching false history, like the 1619 project, or racist theories like Critical Race Theory. I agree with you, Neal, that the state and federal legislators should not be involved in the local school curriculum and the best solution to this problem is to change the mechanism for funding our schools in the state. I think we, as parents, should be able to take our tax dollars that is currently put in a pot for education and use that money to go to any school that we want. This way, when a school is teaching nonfactual information or is performing poorly in general, the parents can object with their dollars.

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Thanks Neal! You know I had hoped that this newsletter, ArkansasNewsroom, would be a place that published multiple opinions from different sides of the issues, but it seems that it is only interested in opinions on the left, like yours. Either way, I always enjoy reading your opinions, even if I disagree with most of them.

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