As I walked towards the State House on Monday, I passed the statue of a smiling Christa McAuliffe as I entered the building. I smiled, too, as I remembered the unveiling of the statue last year and the testimony by one of her former students of the inspiration Christa’s teaching had gifted her. Meanwhile, in the Representative’s Hall, HB283 — a bill to remove art, music, computer science and technology studies as required components of an adequate New Hampshire public education — was proposed. Surely, this cannot be our vision of the education of New Hampshire children! Let’s strive instead to fill that square with more New Hampshire heroes.

James Moyer

Epsom