Letters to the Editor 05-18-2005
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Middle Ground - No Child Left Behind? - Fuel Cost
Middle Ground
Editor, Times-Union:Re: Don Guard's letter to the editor.
To answer Mr. Guard's question: I did vote, and sided with 78 percent of forward-thinking New Orleanians in choosing John Kerry.
It's nice to see the venom of Mr. Guard is still intact. I guess it's better to be mean-spirited and misguided than nothing at all, right? And to be a proud member of a movement that lately (read: under George W. Bush's leadership) prides itself on its divisiveness? I feel sympathy for blind souls such as yourself, Mr. Guard. If only the world were as black-and-white as you apparently think it is.
At least Mr. Guard has stepped up his writing level and is using big-boy phrases such as "vitriolic diatribes." I assume he probably picked it up from a Rush Limbaugh or Fox "News" broadcast and is repeating it verbatim, without really knowing its meaning, but hey.
Now if we can only teach him to use exclamation points a little more sparingly, we'd be getting somewhere.
Perhaps the only thing to be gleaned from Mr. Guard's letters is that the more he writes, the more Harold Kitson looks like a moderate.
Coupled with the fact that I agreed with Harold's letter not too long ago about time change, maybe there is a middle ground after all. Just not in Mr. Guard's world, apparently.
Matt Perry
San Diego, Calif.
via e-mail
No Child Left Behind?
Editor, Times-Union:Recently my younger sister was forced to withdraw from Warsaw Community High School. She has a learning disability that requires her to have special assistance from the teaching staff in order to complete her assignments.
But there is not enough staff to help her at WCHS. She did have a learning disability teacher. This teacher was required to help my sister with her work. However, when Kasey would have a question on how to do her work, the teacher would tell Kasey to go sit down. So, Kasey got very discouraged and just quit asking for help because she never got any anyway. Well, since Kasey was not getting her work finished in a timely fashion, the school decided that it was a waste of time for her to be there.
They called my mother in for a meeting and basically badgered her into withdrawing Kasey from school.
My mother did not want to withdraw Kasey from school, there is only a few weeks of school left and Kasey would have been a senior next year.
President Bush passed an act called "No Child Left Behind." No Child Left Behind holds schools accountable for results. President Bush believes in the bright potential of your child, and schools are responsible for making sure your child is learning.
No Child Left Behind gives schools more money. In fact, President Bush is spending more money than ever before on the education of America's children.
What I just cannot understand is why on earth there are not more teachers or teacher's aides at this high school for special needs kids?
These kids have the right to succeed just as all the other so-called "normal" children. Forcing a child to withdraw from school just so that you do not have to deal with them is just ridiculous!
Well, we have decided to home school Kasey the best way that we can. She will have an education. It will be very difficult considering that my mother has five children and a full-time job. But we will manage. One more thing, I just wonder how WCHS has money to build a new football field for the athletes, but not enough money to hire more teachers?
Heidi Ulrey
Warsaw
via e-mail
Fuel Cost
Editor, Times-Union:The increased cost of gas and diesel fuel is a threat to the way of life which we are now enjoying. We, the people, can and should take this seriously and take all the steps we can to put it in control. Just cut down on the amount we use. In our case as an example, we make six business trips per week that can be done with just three. This would cut our weekly mileage by 23.7 miles, amounting to at least a gallon of gas. If each person in the United States would save a gallon per week, this would reduce our demand for millions of gallons. Demand controls the price we pay.
Increased cost for fuel dips into our pocketbooks a lot more than just the fill-up at the pump. Increased cost to schools for the buses, police cars, fire trucks, ambulances and other government services will require us to pay a lot more in taxes. Freight costs for delivering our products will be increased, which requires us to pay more for what we buy.
Other ways of saving: If we own more than one vehicle, use the one that uses less gas so much as possible. When buying a new vehicle, take serious consideration of the miles per gallon. It all boils down to each one of us what the economy will be, not for just us, but also our descendants.
Fred R. Yohey
Warsaw
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Middle Ground
Editor, Times-Union:Re: Don Guard's letter to the editor.
To answer Mr. Guard's question: I did vote, and sided with 78 percent of forward-thinking New Orleanians in choosing John Kerry.
It's nice to see the venom of Mr. Guard is still intact. I guess it's better to be mean-spirited and misguided than nothing at all, right? And to be a proud member of a movement that lately (read: under George W. Bush's leadership) prides itself on its divisiveness? I feel sympathy for blind souls such as yourself, Mr. Guard. If only the world were as black-and-white as you apparently think it is.
At least Mr. Guard has stepped up his writing level and is using big-boy phrases such as "vitriolic diatribes." I assume he probably picked it up from a Rush Limbaugh or Fox "News" broadcast and is repeating it verbatim, without really knowing its meaning, but hey.
Now if we can only teach him to use exclamation points a little more sparingly, we'd be getting somewhere.
Perhaps the only thing to be gleaned from Mr. Guard's letters is that the more he writes, the more Harold Kitson looks like a moderate.
Coupled with the fact that I agreed with Harold's letter not too long ago about time change, maybe there is a middle ground after all. Just not in Mr. Guard's world, apparently.
Matt Perry
San Diego, Calif.
via e-mail
No Child Left Behind?
Editor, Times-Union:Recently my younger sister was forced to withdraw from Warsaw Community High School. She has a learning disability that requires her to have special assistance from the teaching staff in order to complete her assignments.
But there is not enough staff to help her at WCHS. She did have a learning disability teacher. This teacher was required to help my sister with her work. However, when Kasey would have a question on how to do her work, the teacher would tell Kasey to go sit down. So, Kasey got very discouraged and just quit asking for help because she never got any anyway. Well, since Kasey was not getting her work finished in a timely fashion, the school decided that it was a waste of time for her to be there.
They called my mother in for a meeting and basically badgered her into withdrawing Kasey from school.
My mother did not want to withdraw Kasey from school, there is only a few weeks of school left and Kasey would have been a senior next year.
President Bush passed an act called "No Child Left Behind." No Child Left Behind holds schools accountable for results. President Bush believes in the bright potential of your child, and schools are responsible for making sure your child is learning.
No Child Left Behind gives schools more money. In fact, President Bush is spending more money than ever before on the education of America's children.
What I just cannot understand is why on earth there are not more teachers or teacher's aides at this high school for special needs kids?
These kids have the right to succeed just as all the other so-called "normal" children. Forcing a child to withdraw from school just so that you do not have to deal with them is just ridiculous!
Well, we have decided to home school Kasey the best way that we can. She will have an education. It will be very difficult considering that my mother has five children and a full-time job. But we will manage. One more thing, I just wonder how WCHS has money to build a new football field for the athletes, but not enough money to hire more teachers?
Heidi Ulrey
Warsaw
via e-mail
Fuel Cost
Editor, Times-Union:The increased cost of gas and diesel fuel is a threat to the way of life which we are now enjoying. We, the people, can and should take this seriously and take all the steps we can to put it in control. Just cut down on the amount we use. In our case as an example, we make six business trips per week that can be done with just three. This would cut our weekly mileage by 23.7 miles, amounting to at least a gallon of gas. If each person in the United States would save a gallon per week, this would reduce our demand for millions of gallons. Demand controls the price we pay.
Increased cost for fuel dips into our pocketbooks a lot more than just the fill-up at the pump. Increased cost to schools for the buses, police cars, fire trucks, ambulances and other government services will require us to pay a lot more in taxes. Freight costs for delivering our products will be increased, which requires us to pay more for what we buy.
Other ways of saving: If we own more than one vehicle, use the one that uses less gas so much as possible. When buying a new vehicle, take serious consideration of the miles per gallon. It all boils down to each one of us what the economy will be, not for just us, but also our descendants.
Fred R. Yohey
Warsaw
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