Public schools are sacred. Despite our different affiliations, ambitions, origins, dispositions, and religions, they educate us. They are rocks upon which our community is built and sustained — sources of becoming and belonging.

Why would Monica Dziesinski and Sarah Costain seek seats on the Alpena Public Schools Board of Education when both have enrolled their children in private schools?

Neither participated — nor did candidate Eric Lawson — in the League of Women Voters’ school board candidate forum. All three are sponsored by an organization that advocates charter schools, school choice vouchers, homeschooling, and a unique religious agenda. None of these promote the interests of public schools.

When, then, do they seek control?

I think it best we don’t find out.

DOUGLAS A. PUGH,

Alpena