Teachers must be respected, not denigrated.
Teachers dedicate their lives to serving, teaching, and caring for our children.
They are expected not only to teach but also to protect our children from gunmen and bullets.
Tragically, some have given their lives to protect our kids from harm.
Yet, mean-spirited politicians are allowed to criticize our most venerated, underpaid, and underappreciated educators.
This unacceptable, mean, ungrateful, and disrespectful discourse permeates our airwaves, corrupting the young and making it harder to teach and for kids to learn with open minds.
Therefore, just as there must be rules of engagement in war to prevent war crimes, there must be rules of engagement in politics and political discourse to avoid malicious slander, delinquency of minors, and the radicalization of citizens and children in hate, disrespect, dishonor, and in sedition, treason, and terrorism.
