Letters to the Editor 09-17-2003
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Young Tiger Football - Closing Schools - Majority Rule
Young Tiger Football
Editor, Times-Union:I must tell you about an organization that you have here. Young Tiger Football - it is awesome.
The last two weeks (every night), I've watched young boys ages 8-12 play football. They've sweated, a few have shed a brief tear, but all of them have shown such heart. They've worked like true champions. I'm very proud of each and every one of them.
The volunteer coaches and organizers are awesome. They come early, stay late. They are encouraging, teaching not only football but life.
I would like to encourage the high school and middle school football coaches to come and see the future. If these boys continue with this program, Warsaw will be a powerhouse in football for many years to come.
Everyone should check the Young Tigers out. This isn't just football - it's Tiger Football.
Mita K. Denton
Warsaw
Closing Schools
Editor, Times-Union:At recent Warsaw School Board meetings, several parents have threatened to remove their children from the Warsaw school district if the Claypool, Silver Lake and Atwood elementaries are closed. This decision by these parents to remove their children, if carried out, is to be applauded and encouraged since they are exercising a basic human right of freedom of choice and personal control over their children's education. This choice will place an additional financial burden on their family budgets which, over the long run, will be worth it if it is properly done.
Which brings us to the issue of taxation for public schools. If and when these parents do remove their children from the Warsaw school district and send them to another school district, a private or religious school, or home-school them, whatever local property taxes specifically go toward the Warsaw school district should be removed from their tax bill. This would free up additional resources and relieve these parents of the burden of double taxation for a government service that they no longer use.
And on a final note, for those parents who cannot or have made a choice not to remove their children from the Warsaw school district, they should find the extra time to correct any area of their child's education that is not being taught or poorly taught by the school district.
Alex Houze
Leesburg
Majority Rule
Editor, Times-Union:Well, the highly educated that we elected finally done it. They have made their history, they sure have not learned from it. They must have missed the government class that says majority rules this country. Well, now your kids and mine can go to school in mobile homes, and let me say that the first severe storm that comes and these kids stay in a mobile trailer for safety, well, let's hope that never happens even though the National Weather Service recommends people to leave mobile homes whether they are tied down or not. Dr. McGuire, what are you going to do with our children when the bad weather comes, because you can't ignore that like you have the people of this community. I can see a lawsuit that will cost more than $300,000. The lawsuit that will come if children are hurt in a traffic accident with a bus that is over capacity, I am sure that a jury will value a child at $300,000 or less. I am sure I have never managed a lot of money but, if I am short each month, I don't spend as much. Not this school board, we are short $500,000, let's spend $1.5 million on an office building, $30 million on a football field, and who knows what else. Most of this is just me blowing off, but I added something that Dr. McGuire and the rest of the board have not, and that is common sense. Well, the last thing that they cannot control is that the next election - they will learn that majority rules. They are no longer the school board, they are the school puppets, Dr. McGuire's puppets. To the school puppets that were elected to look out for the interest of the people that elected them, you have failed the people that elected you.
Don Hause
Silver Lake
via e-mail
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- Young Tiger Football - Closing Schools - Majority Rule
Young Tiger Football
Editor, Times-Union:I must tell you about an organization that you have here. Young Tiger Football - it is awesome.
The last two weeks (every night), I've watched young boys ages 8-12 play football. They've sweated, a few have shed a brief tear, but all of them have shown such heart. They've worked like true champions. I'm very proud of each and every one of them.
The volunteer coaches and organizers are awesome. They come early, stay late. They are encouraging, teaching not only football but life.
I would like to encourage the high school and middle school football coaches to come and see the future. If these boys continue with this program, Warsaw will be a powerhouse in football for many years to come.
Everyone should check the Young Tigers out. This isn't just football - it's Tiger Football.
Mita K. Denton
Warsaw
Closing Schools
Editor, Times-Union:At recent Warsaw School Board meetings, several parents have threatened to remove their children from the Warsaw school district if the Claypool, Silver Lake and Atwood elementaries are closed. This decision by these parents to remove their children, if carried out, is to be applauded and encouraged since they are exercising a basic human right of freedom of choice and personal control over their children's education. This choice will place an additional financial burden on their family budgets which, over the long run, will be worth it if it is properly done.
Which brings us to the issue of taxation for public schools. If and when these parents do remove their children from the Warsaw school district and send them to another school district, a private or religious school, or home-school them, whatever local property taxes specifically go toward the Warsaw school district should be removed from their tax bill. This would free up additional resources and relieve these parents of the burden of double taxation for a government service that they no longer use.
And on a final note, for those parents who cannot or have made a choice not to remove their children from the Warsaw school district, they should find the extra time to correct any area of their child's education that is not being taught or poorly taught by the school district.
Alex Houze
Leesburg
Majority Rule
Editor, Times-Union:Well, the highly educated that we elected finally done it. They have made their history, they sure have not learned from it. They must have missed the government class that says majority rules this country. Well, now your kids and mine can go to school in mobile homes, and let me say that the first severe storm that comes and these kids stay in a mobile trailer for safety, well, let's hope that never happens even though the National Weather Service recommends people to leave mobile homes whether they are tied down or not. Dr. McGuire, what are you going to do with our children when the bad weather comes, because you can't ignore that like you have the people of this community. I can see a lawsuit that will cost more than $300,000. The lawsuit that will come if children are hurt in a traffic accident with a bus that is over capacity, I am sure that a jury will value a child at $300,000 or less. I am sure I have never managed a lot of money but, if I am short each month, I don't spend as much. Not this school board, we are short $500,000, let's spend $1.5 million on an office building, $30 million on a football field, and who knows what else. Most of this is just me blowing off, but I added something that Dr. McGuire and the rest of the board have not, and that is common sense. Well, the last thing that they cannot control is that the next election - they will learn that majority rules. They are no longer the school board, they are the school puppets, Dr. McGuire's puppets. To the school puppets that were elected to look out for the interest of the people that elected them, you have failed the people that elected you.
Don Hause
Silver Lake
via e-mail
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