Quickly, before the president closes it down in fear of civics-educated children: congratulations to Easthampton High School’s We the People team [“Knowledge seekers: Students in popular We the People program at Easthampton High tout its benefits,” Gazette, April 23]. We need more and more students with “deep understanding of our U.S. Constitution, philosophy, and current events,” if we are ever to survive and rise above our current political situation of “leaders” who are ignorant of, who even deny, the tenets of the Constitution, the very foundation of the nation. I would wish for “We the People” education to return in an invigorating, meaningful way throughout our public schools. And I encourage all high-school students, and younger! to call for it. Before the present federal administration snaps it shut as “dangerous” or “leftist” or “radical” or (laugh or cry) “un-American.”

Matt L. Levin

Hatfield