Dear Editor,
The Vail School district has much to offer and we are very proud of it, but I am noticing a disturbing trend this year. I agree with Peggy Gibson’s letter to the editor in the February issue of the Vail Voice re: what is happening in our school system. I am witness to a student I personally know. He and his friends struggle with these Social Emotional Learning, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Gender Theory, otherwise known as Critical Race Theory, being forced into our school system. The first day of school and other days since he has been pressured to pick his pronoun. What does that even mean? He is obviously a boy and if he isn’t voicing anything to the contrary why are the teachers even asking this with pressure?
These so-called pronouns are dividing the student body into little groups.
“This is the legacy of Critical Race Theory, which has completely transformed the nation’s schools into sites of Marxist conflict, pitting whites against minorities, the wealthy against the poor, and the “heteronormative” against the “gay” and transgendered. “ – The New American magazine. There is a special room now for the LGBTQ+ individuals to associate in. No other “group” has their own special room. I am talking about identity groups not academic groups. They have fundraisers for the LGBTQ+ and I feel some kids participate because this is being propped up as the cool group. I have nothing against LGBTQ+ but feel it shouldn’t be promoted in school. It can be accepted and not ridiculed, but don’t promote it. Any kind of sexualization doesn’t belong in the school system. This is something that needs to be left up to the parents. This sexual identity stuff is being rubbed in our faces whether we want it or not. I find it very offensive and inappropriate.
We want a high school, middle school, grade school that reflects our values of good citizenship, good morals, no bullying, and we are all Americans. No division.
Under the guise of eradicating racism and division, Critical Race theory does the opposite.
There is so much good going on in the Vail School District and I see students achieving great things and there are great opportunities, it just makes me so sad we may be losing all of this with CRT.
Since the curriculum is all online now, parents may not be aware of what their children are being taught.
I also would like a curriculum audit. We as parents/grandparents do need to know what is being taught so that we can make the best choices for our children.
Kathleen Splitttoesser
Dear Editor,
Just as you cross the bridge going south on Wentworth, Exit 279, you will see a large dirt area to the left. Numerous families and people are out there riding Quads, Scooters, Dirt Bikes and Go-Karts. Fine, great! Have a good time. Just as you enjoy yourselves, PLEASE, PLEASE, look before you zip across the highway to the other side. I’ve had two close calls recently and I do not want to hit anybody, and I’m sure they don’t want to be hit either.
Thank you for your assistance,
Dave Pitts
Dear Editor,
At the dawn of the Pandemic, I was Editor-in-Chief for a national healthcare publication, writing peer-reviewed research articles read by thousands of physicians. Working with top physicians, including a colleague of Fauci, I became aware that mass deception, justified by the March 16, 2020 Ferguson Imperial College forecast (soon exposed as scientific fraud), had taken the world hostage.
According to the American Institute for Economic Research, “the worst outcomes…are almost entirely in countries that leaned heavily on lockdowns…They not only failed to accurately forecast the course of the pandemic in almost every country, irrespective of policy responses taken, the Ferguson models dramatically overstated the death toll, posting the worst performance record of any major epidemiology model.”
As a father and former teacher, I became concerned about the effects of the misguided response to a low-mortality virus on the wellbeing of children—I wrote in my August, 2020 article, Pandemic Abuse:
Societies worldwide are coming to grips with a multitude of other downstream impacts of the pandemic—increased poverty and economic hardship, increased mental health challenges, and deferred care on critical medical conditions. Recently, yet another negative spinoff effect of shutdowns and quarantines has been noted by researchers—international recognition of the unintended negative consequences of the COVID-19 global pandemic management measures, including a spike in [domestic violence] along with psychological health risks, loneliness, school closure, economic vulnerability and job losses.”
Our children have been bought and sold. $2.6B pumped into Arizona schools enforcing CDC “guidelines” (VUSD received $5.5 million) incentivized school boards and administration to ignore pleas and protests of parents and students, and pretend a documented mental health crisis/suicide epidemic linked to their policies didn’t exist. They misappropriated police to arrest dissenting parents and even children, labeling them “domestic terrorists”; they usurped the AZ “Parental Bill of Rights.”
They will be held to account.
I’ve never questioned SARS-CoV-2’s threat to older people with comorbidities; I have opposed disastrous policies. Lockdowns, child masking & mandated vaccination for a virus less dangerous to them than influenza is profit-driven human experimentation, child abuse and a violation of fundamental human rights.
Two years of multiple threats to murder my family, defamatory media hit pieces, and attempts destroy our business have not silenced my voice.
I hope you’ll finally listen.
(Read the full blog at https://linktr.ee/VivaFreedomTalk)
Kelly J. Walker, M.S.
