Dear Parent

 Ottermarsh County Florida 

                                                                                          Official Seal

Board of Education

 March  27, 2023

Dear Parents of an Ottermarsh Student:

As Superintendent of Schools of Ottermarsh County, it grieves me to have to report to you that there has been great recent controversy about the curriculum offerings in our schools. Several parents have brought to me their complaints about what their children are being taught in their classrooms. We here in Superintendent’s Office have always been watchful over the wellbeing of our students and have, therefore, taken the complaints of the parents seriously. 

While we in the Office feel that our schools have not been neglectful of the need of the students to have access to a noncontroversial education, we realize that we must amend our curricula to avoid the impression that we are lax in our duty. 

Thus, since the parent of each student knows absolutely what is right for his/her child, the Superintendent’s Office is instituting a new program that will allow each parent to control the content of his/her child’s education. In order to institute such program, the Office needs to learn the desires of each parent. We have, therefore, devised a questionnaire to ascertain such information.

The questionnaire will allow you, the parent, to decide what your child will be taught. For example, in science class you may wish your child to learn about gravity, but not about the heliocentric solar system; in mathematics class you may wish your child to learn arithmetic, but not geometry. You may also wish to exclude from your child’s curriculum any reference to biology. All of these—and your other—desires will be noted and implemented as early as May 1, 2023.

As a final note, let me hope that the calm that this new program will bring to the District will reverse the downward trend in the results of student performance caused by the raucous controversy of recent times. Last year, for example, the number of Ottermarsh High School graduates who were accepted into college fell from 4 to 2 (both were accepted at Blue Mountain Holler Bible College in Tennessee, which school we thank most heartily).

Most sincerely yours for a true Floridian education,

J. Estes Jefferson Davis, III

Superintendent of Schools

(Enclosed with this letter you will find said questionnaire and a stamped return envelope.)