monthly essay
The Washington Post 2026 Maryland’s Teacher of the Year is from Anne Arundel County, in Maryland.
This story shows the best of patriotism, the best of the religions, the way one should live. That by taking what we say we believe, and making into a reality, we achieve a true form of patriotism and religious thinking.
To many, patriotism looks like the flying of flags, parades, days off from work celebrating our country with hot dogs, potato salad, fireworks, and voting.
To many, religion looks like attending worship on the sabbath, saying prayers before meals, in the morning, in the evening, paying our dues, giving to charity.
None of these looks fail in description but fail in a full description. We have The Problem of suffering by many, demanding a solution to care for our neighbor as he comes, not as desired. This solution contains A Call to Action.
The Washington Post’s 2026 Maryland Teacher of the Year, Jacqueline Sanderson of Belle Grove Elementary School in Maryland, defines the look of A Call of Action.
This school is a Title 1 School, meaning many of its children come from low-income families. More than 40% of the children are Latino. When Donald Trump returned to the white house, attendance at the school dropped as the administration focused on immigration.
“Families are afraid to send their kids to school”’ says Jacqueline Sanderson. So, in January of 2025 she and others organized putting crafts, activities and snacks into large bags with guardianship forms and information about immigration resources. These were personally delivered to families.
“Somebody has to help these kids and advocate for them…I just think you should always do what is best for kids”, Ms. Sanderson says.
This is the complete look of patriotism and religion. This is the face of A Call for Action. (Source: Washington Post, June 4, 2026)
Political/economic/social statement of Prime directives
We all want to live in a community where the streets are safe. Where we can send our children out to play knowing they will come back home safely. That our children go to school without police patrolling the school hallways.
We all want to live in a community where schools educate with the best teachers, the best books, the best technology.
We all want to live in a community where our work is meaningful with enough money to care for family and children with no need to pay the electric bill, the water bill, the food bill with a credit card or a government handout. We all want a job where we are respected.
We want to live in a community with decent affordable housing, to be able to have a faith in our lives that speaks to us and our families.
We want economic stability and security, safe communities and homes, schools and workplaces, and stable accessible government institutions that serve the interests of We The People.
All respect family, freedom, kindness, integrity, democracy, seeing these foundational beliefs as the core of happiness.
These beliefs translate into a common belief in clean air and water, quality education, protection of privacy (personal data), real and affordable health care. We desire leaders elected by us in fair elections not bought by the few with assurances our leaders cannot use their privileges to profit themselves.
But none of the above is happening mandating a thinking that the credit card (the slippery lender), the government handout, the corruption defining our lives, can be avoided by an economic system in which we are respected as human beings and workers, assuring fair and adequate wages, the very physical foundation of the spiritual in the happy life.
This thinking is to bring us together, not divide us, not to keep us weak with the strong and the few becoming stronger and fewer. A faith grounded in brotherhood mandating love for children, for spouses, for parents, for friends is to be extended to love for our community.
This faith is to be manifested in citizenship where concern is not to be charitable but to establish rules giving us a world where charity is no longer needed.
We seek a community where the Five Pillars of Man, that is the Physical, the Intellect, the Emotional, the Spiritual and Love, are honored in belief and deed giving us the American values long cherished as foundational to personal independence and self-reliance, assuring a fair chance for all regardless of background to succeed in an economy based on private ownership and the free market, moving about in freedom from arbitrary control denying personal choice, and meaningful and real participation as citizens in our government institutions.
PICTURES OF PEOPLE STRUGGLING TO LIVE
project
POVERTY, AMERICA’S INDUSTRY
IT NEEDS TO BE STATED RIGHT UP FRONT, THAT THE PEOPLE WORKING IN THE SUBJECT OF THIS ESSAY, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, ARE DEDICATED, HONEST AND HARD WORKING. FROM THE JUDGE IN CHARGE TO THE MAN CLEANING UP AFTER THE HOMELESS, EACH IS IMPORTANT AND TO BE RESPECTED. WITH THIS STATEMENT, LET US BEGIN.
This chapter serves as a description of a project, entitled “Poverty, America’s Industry”, based on the premise that the leading industries in the United States are not limited to the steel industry, the oil industry, the technology industry, the munition industry and the like. The poverty industry is to be included in this group. CLICK HERE TO POVERTY, AMERICA'S INDUSTRY
