Letters to the Editor 08-25-2003
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- School Redistricting - Troops Return - Pray For Episcopalians
School Redistricting
Editor, Times-Union:It comes to my attention through media and paper that our fair city and county is cruising for a bruising. The issue at hand - school redistricting.
It seems every organization, no matter how small or large, gets bogged down in bureaucratic manure. Like for example: we can only pave streets or do repair on sewage lines in different years because of the way money is distributed. For some reason it costs "less" to pave the streets one year and tear them up the next to lay down sewage lines and repave, than to lay sewage lines and pave in the same year. Hello!?
Well, it appears that to have smaller schools with less students costs about $300,000 a year more than the school corporation has. But, and this is a big but, we somewhere have $62 million to build two new "bigger and better" schools. At least that was what was explained initially. The reasoning behind not using that money to keep what we already have is because of how money is distributed.
One must have a college education to understand the logistics of what was just presented. The reasoning being, most normal intelligent people can't understand the logic behind such.
What is amazing is our country has been built by thousands of men and women who attended small township or block schools. They got wonderful educations by highly educated individuals. There were no computers, television, calculators, faxes, copy machines, multiple telephone lines, air conditioning, the list continues endlessly. No drama department (although each spring and fall there were fantastic plays put on by juniors and seniors called Thespians), no major auditoriums (although we had fall, Christmas and spring concerts in the gym and it was always filled to capacity). We didn't have a gym that held 5,000+ but the gyms were always filled with families for basektball games and sock hops and family fair night and science fair night. The Home Ec department always had a huge fashion show with clothes the department had made all year. This too was well attended.
In the summer the gym was used for various activities, one being the 4-H judging for the township, and band rehearsals for summer shows.
It is an assumption, but the remonstrators for these proposals, too numerous now to mention, probably remember the above-mentioned activities taking place in those respective small schools. The wish is for their children to have the same wonderful, rich memories. Can't say as I blame them for wanting something so treasured for their treasured kiddos.
Phyllis L. Barger
Warsaw
Troops Return
Editor, Times-Union:I am wondering now that we have a "assumption date" of Sept. 27 for the returning home of our loved ones, is there any plan for a wonderful parade or celebration of some sort planned by the city of Warsaw? I am e-mailing because it is so very hard to get a return phone call from our mayor.
This town is so very very supportive of our troops and so very patriotic that I cannot imagine that there is not something planned, and is there any way that I can help?
Bonnie J. Webb
Mother of Steven S. Baker (SPC)
deployed to Kuwait
via e-mail
Pray For Episcopalians
Editor, Times-Union:After reading that the Episcopal denomination voted to allow same sex marriage and a homosexual minister, I just wanted to write to ask all Christians to pray for those who didn't agree with the leadership. Romans 1:24-28, I Corinthians 6:9 and several other verses say the leadership made a mistake. We are all sinners but Matthew 12:31 says there is only one unforgivable sin.
Charlie Shelton
Warsaw
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School Redistricting
Editor, Times-Union:It comes to my attention through media and paper that our fair city and county is cruising for a bruising. The issue at hand - school redistricting.
It seems every organization, no matter how small or large, gets bogged down in bureaucratic manure. Like for example: we can only pave streets or do repair on sewage lines in different years because of the way money is distributed. For some reason it costs "less" to pave the streets one year and tear them up the next to lay down sewage lines and repave, than to lay sewage lines and pave in the same year. Hello!?
Well, it appears that to have smaller schools with less students costs about $300,000 a year more than the school corporation has. But, and this is a big but, we somewhere have $62 million to build two new "bigger and better" schools. At least that was what was explained initially. The reasoning behind not using that money to keep what we already have is because of how money is distributed.
One must have a college education to understand the logistics of what was just presented. The reasoning being, most normal intelligent people can't understand the logic behind such.
What is amazing is our country has been built by thousands of men and women who attended small township or block schools. They got wonderful educations by highly educated individuals. There were no computers, television, calculators, faxes, copy machines, multiple telephone lines, air conditioning, the list continues endlessly. No drama department (although each spring and fall there were fantastic plays put on by juniors and seniors called Thespians), no major auditoriums (although we had fall, Christmas and spring concerts in the gym and it was always filled to capacity). We didn't have a gym that held 5,000+ but the gyms were always filled with families for basektball games and sock hops and family fair night and science fair night. The Home Ec department always had a huge fashion show with clothes the department had made all year. This too was well attended.
In the summer the gym was used for various activities, one being the 4-H judging for the township, and band rehearsals for summer shows.
It is an assumption, but the remonstrators for these proposals, too numerous now to mention, probably remember the above-mentioned activities taking place in those respective small schools. The wish is for their children to have the same wonderful, rich memories. Can't say as I blame them for wanting something so treasured for their treasured kiddos.
Phyllis L. Barger
Warsaw
Troops Return
Editor, Times-Union:I am wondering now that we have a "assumption date" of Sept. 27 for the returning home of our loved ones, is there any plan for a wonderful parade or celebration of some sort planned by the city of Warsaw? I am e-mailing because it is so very hard to get a return phone call from our mayor.
This town is so very very supportive of our troops and so very patriotic that I cannot imagine that there is not something planned, and is there any way that I can help?
Bonnie J. Webb
Mother of Steven S. Baker (SPC)
deployed to Kuwait
via e-mail
Pray For Episcopalians
Editor, Times-Union:After reading that the Episcopal denomination voted to allow same sex marriage and a homosexual minister, I just wanted to write to ask all Christians to pray for those who didn't agree with the leadership. Romans 1:24-28, I Corinthians 6:9 and several other verses say the leadership made a mistake. We are all sinners but Matthew 12:31 says there is only one unforgivable sin.
Charlie Shelton
Warsaw
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