Most cancers column inspiration
Reply: “Residing in a not-yet-not-yet-no-solution-to-my-cancer-story-and-maybe-that’s the entire level,” by Peggy Weimayer, Sunday Opinion.
Thanks Peggy Weimayer for this excellent column. Please know that your phrases imply so much. Thanks for candidly sharing your expertise having a tough time. You’re an inspiration and we ship you like and greatest needs!
Stacy Olds, Dallas
Not training, indoctrination
Re: “Judging Books in One Paragraph” by Karen Miller, Monday Letters.
Mrs. Miller’s considerate letter once more centered me on guide bans and comparable measures. Presenting an opinion or perspective just isn’t educating. It is indoctrination.
The truth that Germany within the Thirties and Forties and the Soviet Union (in addition to Russia underneath Vladimir Putin) took the trail of suppressing dissenting or non-conforming opinions and viewpoints must be sufficient to point out that this isn’t a path to be adopted.
Additionally, I consider — and hope — that I’ve turn out to be a greater individual over time as a result of I’ve critically thought-about the totally different opinions and views about our distinctive planet and its distinctive individuals.
Is not a part of educating our kids educating them methods to assume critically, fairly than simply echoing a specific opinion or perspective?
If an opinion or perspective is “appropriate,” so to talk, it should stand as much as essential evaluation and scrutiny. Banning opinions or dissenting opinions is definitely dangerous. If an opinion or perspective doesn’t stand as much as essential evaluation or scrutiny, we have to think about that we could also be improper, or that there merely is not any “proper” reply.
Russell G. Thornton, East Dallas
Penalties of on-line harassment
Reply: “That is no technique to hold academics — scholar misbehavior, ineffective responses drive academics out of the classroom,” Sunday’s editorial stated.
As a Frisco resident, I used to be dismayed to be taught that one in all our academics felt he needed to give up after being harassed on-line with threatening messages from a scholar. The response from the area was inadequate. College students who act on this means have to know that such actions shall be recorded on their college report and made out there to the universities and firms to which such college students subsequently apply.
A number of years in the past, Harvard withdrew its provide of admission to half a dozen college students whose feedback on the Web had been found by the school as disgraceful.
Such habits might not be unlawful however should bear the implications of different sorts akin to what Harvard College has supplied to those candidates.
Sanford J. Thatcher, Frisco
Dad and mom should move on values
As an aged mom of six grownup kids, I’ve robust opinions about this. After all, there is not going to be only one resolution. Nonetheless, my opinion is that if moms who can (economically) hold their kids out of the daycare system till kindergarten and instill ethical values, they are going to do their kids a lifetime of service. and group service.
The present norm is kids who, from infancy, have been transferring round in the course of the day, with parental contact being a brief night occasion. Admittedly, in some circumstances, this state of affairs could also be the very best case state of affairs.
Sadly, our nation, for my part, has fallen into ethical decay. It now requires extraordinary efforts on the a part of the dad or mum, dad and mom, stepparents, family and anybody with values who love and look after the kid to impart values and early coaching.
Ella Ditherge, Brian
Take steps to reform colleges
If we need to change colleges, the next have to be applied: higher wages for academics, strict self-discipline, college uniforms, banning cell phones, and different colleges for college kids who intrude with the educational course of.
I’m now a retired highschool English instructor. I, too, am an skilled scholar who doesn’t belong in an everyday class. If we don’t urgently reform the nation’s college system, we’ll finally not be capable of run colleges, particularly in our marginalized communities. In brief, the voucher system could be the solely resolution to a failing system.
Susan Gebbia, Sherman
Peace begins at house
Re: “Self-discipline begins at house,” Kay Wrubel, Sunday Letters.
This recommendation that “self-discipline begins at house” is probably the most affordable, efficient, constructive, and constant method that may resolve college and instructor issues and engender respect for our legal guidelines and the police, patriotism for our flag and nation, respect for different human beings as kids enter society and develop in stature, and create a extra peaceable nation.
Eric Max Hon, North Dallas
The sunshine of the greats
Reply: “Investigation Fails to Discover Leaker – Alito’s Draft Opinion on Abortion Revealed Earlier than Remaining Judgment,” information story Jan. 20.
With all due respect to the late George Orwell, is it the case with our authorities’s Animal Farm that every one animals are equal, besides that some are extra equal than others? Within the newest labeled conduct by the US Supreme Court docket, it was found that the court docket did not disclose the previous, long-term monetary relationships of Michael Chertoff, the previous head of Homeland Safety, whom it known as upon to overview and certify a current inner investigation. Within the untimely leak of the choice to drop Roe v. Wade.
Court docket contracts are usually not lined by federal public disclosure guidelines, making the nation’s highest court docket unaccountable and never topic to public scrutiny on this regard. Is not it time we had a sunshine legislation that made full disclosure obligatory for our Supreme Court docket? It’s our lives which can be affected by her choices and our cash spending, in any case.
John Ziegler, Georgetown
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