By
Deana Rhoades
1st Vice-Chair, PCDP
As noted in previous newsletters, our PCDP Communications Committee will share a monthly message on the issues we confront in Placer County.
The American Dream – that enigmatic hope for a successful future we imagine our children will be able to attain. We love, feed, house, and guide our children, but much of their future depends on the interactions they have when we are not around. We depend on our public school system to provide our children with the skills they will need to succeed in an ever-increasingly complex world. Young minds will need to develop a strong understanding of earth sciences, history, cooperation, and technology to face the challenges ahead.
But Republicans demand that our youth live an American nightmare. They seek to repeat the mistakes of the past by preventing our children from hearing a complete and accurate chronicle of our country’s history. They impede the teaching of science and technology our children will need to survive by trivializing and denying the impacts of the changing climate. They hate that 21st-century children thrive in a diverse cultural environment. Their bigotry and desire to maintain control over not only their own children, but everyone’s children, require that they dumb down the young minds and deny them the opportunity to ever escape their parental constraints.
We must support a vibrant education for our youth: provide them with access to books on all subjects; celebrate diversity and recognize the contributions of all groups currently and throughout our past; and provide safety from those far-right extremists who use violence to fetter them from seeking the American Dream.
