In the Dec. 6 issue, the New York Teacher rightfully celebrated the results of the 2018 election.

As a member of the UFT Delegate Assembly since 1988, I read fellow retiree Martin Boxer’s critique of the UFT endorsement policy [Comments, Dec. 6] with utter disbelief.

Some years back I showed students Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and a few parents complained that students were being exposed to propaganda and political bias.

After looking at the list of endorsements for the election, I began to realize that if Abe Lincoln were running he wouldn’t rate a UFT endorsement.

Soon-to-be-former Sen. Marty Golden is bad for both teachers and students, as well as our schools!

As a child of the 1960s, the anti-war Woodstock generation, I am crushed and saddened by the hate and gun violence in our country, the latest atrocity being the shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

The District 15 diversity pilot approved by the mayor and the chancellor in September is a valiant project! I do have some questions though:

To the people who think New York State is literally the worst, well, it does have its flaws for teachers, but we don’t have nearly as many issues as our colleagues around the nation.

To become a licensed teacher, one must take a battery of tests, earn a master’s degree and demonstrate teaching proficiency. However, anyone can grow up to be president of the United States!

As educators, we are more than aware of the impact words have on how we see things and how we frame our responses to things culturally (e.g., a particular racial term).