Letter to the editor: Charles Koch's plan for public education

Charles Koch of the Koch brothers is part of the uber-wealthy with a net worth of over $63 billion. He spends millions to influence our government, and they gave $20 million to get President Trump’s tax cuts passed. The money was well invested, for in 2018 alone, the brothers saved over $1 billion in taxes.

Their Americans For Prosperity, Freedom Partners and dark money PACs all try to shape policy toward their agenda of minimal taxes for the wealthy, minimal regulations for business and privatization of everything. They are for unfettered, law of the jungle free markets, while seemingly forgetting the many times in the last 30 years that the American taxpayer has had to rescue bad-acting, too-big-to-fail companies.

They want to privatize our public schools. Make no mistake, their funding of school board candidates in Pennsylvania, accompanied by their cry of freedom and liberty from vaccination and mask mandates is just a cover, a smokescreen. They are weaponizing book-banning and critical race theory to hype participation by the GOP base. Few people realize their ultimate aim is to privatize schools for profit.

Public education is part of what makes America great. We should support and strengthen our pubic schools, our teachers and guard against this political theater.

Gloria Gralewski

Manor