Diana Roberts (“Mohawk Students have right to protest” 4/2/22) misses the point when she points out that Mohawk students have the right to protest. Of course they do, nobody refutes that fact. But what these same students do not have the right to do is to disrupt the learning curriculum and to foist a political agenda on their fellow students during school time. Before school, after school, and on weekends would be fine, but not during school time when kids are supposed to be learning to diagram sentences, solving mathematic word problems and learning to think critically.
We have high paying jobs available here in the commonwealth without workers capable of performing the work due to a lack of education and training. Protesting LGBTQ legislation in various states across America doesn’t teach young people how to perform complex tasks that lead to livable wages and the ability to be independent financially.
It’s time to buck up and to teach our children the meaning of tough academic work.
Brad Brigham