Jewish parents should pull their children out of Saco schools if Nick Fuller Googins is the representative of teachers in that district. Mr. Googins, a fourth grade teacher at CK Burns School, penned an opinion piece in the June 2 Press Herald calling for a boycott and divestment of Israel. But nowhere in Mr. Googins’ shallow repetition of today’s liberal cause celebré does he mention the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks by Hamas.

How can anyone entrusted to teach our children fail to acknowledge the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust when terrorists slaughtered 1,200 innocent civilians? Where is Mr. Googins’ outrage over the use of rape and sexual torture on innocent young girls? Where is Mr. Googins’ outrage over the beheading of babies and the taking of children, younger than those he teaches, as hostages?

A supposed educator should not be repeating debunked propaganda from a heinous terrorist organization. Look no further than the stats Mr. Googins cites for the Gaza death toll, which now even the U.N. has acknowledged was inflated twofold because it relied on faulty Hamas numbers.

Nobody wants more innocent civilians to die. But if a teacher cannot put the current conflict into proper context and cannot even acknowledge the atrocities committed by Palestinians against Jews, then that teacher should not be allowed anywhere near our children.

Steven Silver
South Portland