To the editor:

In the comments section to a recent letter to the editor and in other venues there have been disparaging remarks about those who have no children in our New Ulm schools and their current involvement in the workings of the school district. What business is it of theirs? Is their agenda simply political and self-serving? The suggestion has been made that they are “morons”.

Anyone who has experienced the freedoms we have enjoyed in past decades in our community and in our country cannot help but see that a change is taking place. Those freedoms are being threatened at their very root as inroads are being made into the philosophy of the education of America’s children.

Basic freedoms are threatened by fellow Americans who want to shut down debate. They are threatened by those who call a differing view on what is good for our children and for our future “crap.” And they are threatened by those who want to indoctrinate the children of this country with views that will destroy our families, our heritage, and our society and pit us against one another.

Why do we, who don’t have children in our New Ulm schools, care about the underlying philosophy of what is being taught in schools in New Ulm and across America? Why don’t we “mind our own business”? Because it is our business.

Should we only care about those in our own personal circle? Or should we also care about others? Should we care about the future of the country we want to pass on to the next generation?

What is going on in the schools of America should be of concern to every New Ulm citizen and every American. Who cares? I hope we all do — enough to become active in advocating for more than just our own children. A lot is at stake.

Mary Thom

New Ulm