Words matter. So do elections. Karen Puckett calls out long time and long time, overdue gone from the House, Representative Virginia Foxx, to leave Congress. It’s time for change!  

Yes Virginia, a Child’s Voice DOES matter!

A U.S. Congressperson who mocks teachers and children should not be re-elected to her district seat.

This happened recently. A 10-year-old Greensboro student and his classmates were given a class assignment to write a persuasive essay. Students were instructed to write the essay about an issue of their own choosing, then to send the letter to a decision maker who was in a position to implement the issue.  One student wrote to his U.S. Congressional Representative, Virginia Foxx, and encouraged her to consider a $5,000 tax rebate for the purchase of electric vehicles.

The letter was mailed with a return address saying “4th grade” and the address of the child’s school. Foxx emailed a response to the child using the school’s email address.  She explained why, in her view, providing a tax rebate towards the purchase of electric vehicles would be a bad decision.  She was towing the GOP line of implementing austerity measures and eliminating government regulations, but that wasn’t the major problem with her letter.

Towards the end of her letter, she stated, “Incidentally, please ask your teacher to explain propaganda to you. While I will never be able to know, my guess is that your teachers will not give you a good educational experience and help you learn to think as they are too interested in indoctrinating you. How sad.”

What in the world??? Who says that to a child?  Accusing a teacher she doesn’t know of spreading propaganda is NOT an appropriate response! Rep. Foxx owes the teacher and the child an apology. A child’s voice DOES matter!

Virginia’s letter –