Letter: Our schools won’t know what hit them
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Fern Creson poses for a photograph during a rally in the capitol rotunda in Salt Lake City on May 21. This rally was part of a nationwide series of protests to bring attention as a number of conservative states pass laws aimed at getting abortion before the U.S. Supreme Court.
In Holly Richardson’s last column on abortion I have some thoughts.
In 2010, (current statistics will not be available until the 2020 census) according to Children’s Service Society, 63,000 children in Utah were living in some other home than with their parent(s). Ninety-nine percent of this terrible situation is caused by addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Many of the millions Richardson cites would be born into these circumstances. Even if we, as a society, would take care of these unwanted, drug and alcohol addicted babies, these children have the effects of prenatal addiction.
Our schools are not equipped to handle these children and millions are coming due to the opioid crisis which started 10 years ago. Get ready! Coupled with autism, our low per-pupil spending and low teacher salaries (even with the increases) our teachers and administrators will not know what hit them.
Judy Miller, Murray
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