To the Editor:
You parents of children in schools and in classes,

Your interest in lessons is nice but just pay your taxes.

We’ve got degrees on parchment with seals

Which make us all experts and you just some heels.

When we teach a theory and present it as fact

’Tis in the interests of truth and justice we act.

Race is so critical to divide and to play

So of course it is nowhere and everywhere today.

There once was a preacher who once had to say

I have a dream in which character counts

more than skin pigments in any amounts.

We counter his thoughts and combat his preaching

With the race theories critical that we are teaching.

You parents of children in schools and in classes

Your interest in lessons is nice but just pay your taxes.

Edgar Tolmie

Altamont

Editor’s note: Critical Race Theory is not part of the K-12 curriculum in public schools in New York State.