When you attack teachers, school boards over pandemic, you’re attacking your neighbors | Opinionīy Capital-Star Guest Contributor, Pennsylvania Capital-Star Her work appears frequently on the Capital-Star’s Commentary Page. Opinion contributor Jill Sunday Bartoli, of Carlisle, Pa., is a former educator. May we continue to draw on the divine within us to teach our children to create the caring communities we can all embrace and celebrate. If our children see us as the respectful, caring, generous people we are at heart, they will be inspired to become like us. Can we find more ways to treat teachers, administrators, nurses and doctors with the respect and dignity they so richly deserve? Likewise, we are losing the nurses and other caregivers we desperately need. And indeed, we are losing our teachers by the thousands. We need to trust those who are doing their very best to educate and care for our children or we will lose the people we so critically need. Violent school board meetings with masking protests and misunderstood, misguided curriculum opposition are all too common. It is heartbreaking to see some of this legacy being squandered in attacks on the teachers and administrators who are painstakingly caring for the health and education of our children.
school board race became a Trumpian battleground | Thursday Morning Coffee These are the great examples and legacies that we can leave to our children so that they can build a more united, more fair and just, more caring society in the future. We were able to unify and collaborate around shared values of empathy and compassion, justice and fairness, and interdependence. In countless ways we found our untapped capacity to work together for the common good.
People drew on the divine spark within all of us to reach out and help their neighbors near and far. Amazing acts of kindness, caring and generosity have touched our hearts, giving us a glimpse of the society we all yearn for. Since the covid pandemic began, we have seen both the best and the worst from our fellow humans. Remember the seatbelt resistance and ultimate transition? Remember measles and mumps before vaccinations? Remember polio and iron lungs for kids before vaccines? As we learned in the past, change is hard but necessary for survival. The global pandemic has taught us that we need the best of each other to survive.
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