I write with some urgency as a result of there was a misunderstanding and a painful one for me and folks like me. I am an instructional and have been for 40 years. I am not at all an instructional star, nor am I a public mental. I am what you may name a "rank-and-file educational." It is fairly uncharacteristic of me to even write such a letter as this one. However I am moved to say my piece.