Dear Editor: Woke

Dear Editor,

In recent online discussions in town regarding policies recently perpetrated by our illustrious school administration, I was accused of being “woke.” I found this to be quite upsetting as, until now, I had subscribed to Hess’s description, “Woke is being the inverse of politically correct and wanting everyone to know just how correct you are.”

I have never in my life striven for political correctness and have rebelled against it. I always regarded “woke” by its current definition and use as “progressive or left-wing attitudes or practices, especially those opposing social injustic...