Letters to the Editor

The "R’ Word
    


     Dear Editor.
     Once again, I read in the front fold: "NEW STATE LAW GETS PERSONAL" in Sunday’s edition of www.cjonline.com headlines our mayor and city council.
     I read the article out loud to Sally over dinner and we both are confused. I read it three times and still don’t understand it.
     My questions and comments to all in federal state and local governments are; Why can’t you all just get along? Who’s in charge?
     Are we playing politics here when we should be thinking of what’s best for our great country?
     Where are the patriots? Or are our politicians a bunch of pinheads?
     I’m glad I was NOT elected as Topeka’s mayor in 2005.
    
    
     Regards,
     ; Myron Holter
    
    

A case for vouchers
Dear Editor,

     Dear Editor:
     Our State needs a vast overhaul of it’s Educational system. Some parents want creationism taught in school, some think the teachers do little to teach the children, and others would like school prayer returned to the schools. The public schools are under so much pressure from so many different public interest groups it makes it difficult for them to fulfill their charter of teaching our children.
     Under the school voucher system, if the parents do not like the policies or the way their children are being taught, they would have the choice of sending their children to a state accredited private or parochial school. This would also give the parents in the lower income range the same rights of school choice that people who can afford it now have.
     If a voucher system is implemented it needs to go to only to the schools that pass the Kansas accreditation process. Once they accept a student, the school is responsible for the student’s education for that whole school calendar year. With the vouchers, it would take the politics out of the public schools by eliminating the problems of teaching creationism and prayer in schools.
     The biggest argument the opposition has to vouchers is it violates the separation of church and state. I think just the opposite would happen. It would keep religion out of the public schools plus let the parents who wish to practice their religion the right too by sending their children to a private or parochial school

     ;BR>     
     ;Gary Parnell