Dear Editor: Wisconsin’s educational system, K-12 and the University of Wisconsin System, has been the source of great pride throughout our state’s history. Apparently our currently elected state officials (mostly Republicans) believe this to be a false pride. They are willing to be written into history as the dismantlers of progressive, affordable, equitable education for their state’s children.
Most of those who seem to take pleasure in the unraveling of our educational system are themselves graduates of the K-12 system, and 23 Republicans in the Legislature are graduates of the UW System, including some who received degrees in education. How nice for them, able to secure that education borne on the shoulders of those who sustained the system for generations before them.