On a cold and wintry night in 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. This iconic event occurred because the British government was treating the colonists unfairly and they didn’t have the capacity to listen to their concerns. This would not be the last time in the history of this great country that Americans revolted when government treated people unfairly.

A revolution is growing in New York due to the fact that Andrew Cuomo is incapable of listening to parent’s concerns regarding the education of their children. Quite simply, Governor Cuomo does not respect our teachers or the basic premise of public education. Extortion is the word that comes to my mind when I think of the shameful way he connected desperately needed funding for public schools to draconian educational reforms. He is bleeding public schools dry and then, adding…