Editor,

​I have been married for 49 years to my teacher wife, so, I read with interest Steven Hortons’s letter to the editor defending a teacher’s right to express an opinion.

My knowledge of what my wife put up with is a bit less positive. She understood that what her job entailed was to give her students the tools to learn how to learn.

Asking an opinion of a teacher only lets the student know where the teacher stands on a subject, not how to think or analyze the truth of that subject.

More often than not curriculum standards require an adherence to form rather than substance.

When textbooks devote two pages to Harriet Tubman and one paragraph to Abraham Lincoln you can see where the ideology leads.

I don’t object to having an ideological bent, I just don’t like it when different opinions are labeled lies and misinformation.

If you are a great teacher, lies will become apparent to those you teach.

Fred Wilferth

Coupeville