Who needs a voucher?

My classroom is my turf. Go ahead and make me a martyr, Gov. DeSantis. | Column, March 29

I would take my $8,700 school choice voucher and send my kid to high school teacher Chris Fulton’s class. She would learn how to think critically, and how authority is something to question and to resist when necessary. I bet the Founding Fathers had teachers like Mr. Fulton, and we all know how they responded to leaders like Gov. Ron DeSantis. Oh wait, Mr. Fulton teaches in a public school, so I don’t even need a voucher to get exactly what I want for my kid to become her best. Public schools, when supported, built the America so many harken back to.

Patrick Jennings, St. Petersburg

A refreshing column

My classroom is my turf. Go ahead and make me a martyr, Gov. DeSantis. | Column, March 29

How amazingly refreshing to read the column by teacher Chris Fulton. I’m worried that our public school system will not survive the constant onslaught from our governor and a compliant Legislature. I believe their goal is to privatize K-12 education in Florida. To know there are still intelligent, caring and rational educators in our public school system is comforting if only temporarily, because I wonder if the governor might now target this brave educator.

Ray Hansen, St. Petersburg

Clone this man

My classroom is my turf. Go ahead and make me a martyr, Gov. DeSantis. | Column, March 29

Teacher Chris Fulton is my new hero. Too bad he can’t be cloned with a reproduction of him somehow appearing as an addition to Florida’s Department of Health, Board of Education and Supreme Court.

David Lubin, Tampa

An expert takedown

My classroom is my turf. Go ahead and make me a martyr, Gov. DeSantis. | Column, March 29

Bravo to Tarpon Springs High School teacher Chris Fulton, who expertly dismantled the premises and logic behind Florida’s anti-woke law and its Parental Rights in Education Act — also known as the Don’t Say Gay law — in his column. For anyone willing to learn, please give his essay a read. You will learn that the real enemy of our Florida free society is not “thinking” but being told how and what to think by a select group of autocrats.

David Frishkorn, Tampa

My new hero

My classroom is my turf. Go ahead and make me a martyr, Gov. DeSantis. | Column, March 29

Teacher Chris Fulton is my hero.

E.L. Hall, Lakeland