Re: “,” June 20 letter to the editor.
Do test scores measure families beaten down by poverty and social injustice? Do scores take into account those who are on the margins, not knowing where they will move to next with Denver’s skyrocketing rents? Do they take non-native English speakers and students with learning disabilities into account?
The thing that makes Escuela Tlatelolco school great is its true commitment to cultivating free-thinking, self-actualized global citizens — individuals who know that doing the right thing is often unpopular and difficult.
I have never worked at a school that has gone out of the way more to work with students and families in the most difficult of situations.
I don’t know if cutting the school’s public funding was the right decision, but what I do know is it is a slap in the face to do it in the name of “students first.”
David Orr, Denver
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