<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Today in the NYTimes:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:25px">Another thing you don’t hear from Texas: a board of education voting — </span><a class="gmail-css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/us/san-francisco-schools-lincoln-feinstein.html" title="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:25px;line-height:inherit;font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-style:solid;text-decoration-color:rgb(50,104,145);color:rgb(50,104,145)">as San Francisco’s just did</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:25px"> — to strip the names of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and </span><a class="gmail-css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/evangerstmann/2021/01/27/san-francisco-votes-to-remove-founding-fathers-names-from-schools-at-up-to-1-million-in-taxpayer-expense/?sh=2bee0054354b" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:25px;line-height:inherit;font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-style:solid;text-decoration-color:rgb(50,104,145);color:rgb(50,104,145)">Paul Revere</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:25px"> from their respective schools, on grounds of sinning against the more recent commandments of progressive dogma. </span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:25px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:25px">Who will we kick out next:  Ben Franklin?  Who are to be our heroes - those who never did anything the current culture disapproves of?  (just what is Lincoln accused of, anyway?).</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:25px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:25px">These things send messages to our children, but what, exactly, I am not sure of.  That people have to be perfect by one standard - the current one?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:25px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:25px">Teachers, I think, are really not allowed to teach values:  that would let in religion and parents don't want teachers to do that.  So if a student asks why Washington is being tossed out, what are the answers going to be?  Kids will be confused - just like I am.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:25px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:25px">bill w</span></div></div>