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Opinion Letters Letters to the editor for Nov. 19, 2010
Letters to the editor for Nov. 19, 2010
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Calling all teachers To the Editor: With budget cuts you have been forced to do more with less. Letting parents help you in the classroom allows you to spend more precious time teaching our children. This also shows the children that their family and community care about school and their success. Back to school night requests are a great start, but there must be more we can do. Many of us parents work during the day, so volunteering in the class is not easy to accommodate. There is a lot of prep work that we can do. Whether it is prepping art projects, stapling weekly readers, organizing scholastic book orders or donating supplies, we just want to know what you need throughout the year. Many parents see you pick up or drop off their children, but many working parents do not as their children ride the bus or get dropped off by childcare providers. I would like to suggest a fun way to get us involved that I saw in a recent Family Fun magazine. How about setting up a wishing tree with a branch for each teacher? Fill up your branch with needed leaves for parents to pick from. Pick a visible wall to decorate with a paper tree or a painted mural. Have an online version of this available at the school/classroom website for those you do not see regularly. As the leaves are picked, parents put their names on the leaves and put them in their teacher's raked pile below the tree. In the spring, all the leaves could turn into beautiful blooms with pictures of all the children. Let us help these children grow and bloom. Jill Jodie Arnold Hedge Funds To the Editor: Financial expert Zubi Diamond has written a book, “Wizards of Wall Street”. He addresses the hedge fund short sellers as the abusers of the stock market. First, he explains the fund short sellers are managed by the Managed Funds Association (MFA), who spent $980,000 lobbying federal officials and members of Congress in the second quarter of this year. MFA spent $l.37 million during the first quarter. They also raise money for Congress members who support their plan. Unlike mutual funds, hedge funds do not have to register with the SEC and thus do not have to disclose who runs them or what securities they buy. What is needed is legal protection for invested capital and protection of the value of our homes. Diamond further explains that only when mark to market accounting is ended and replaced with book value cost accounting will the market be safe enough for all Americans to invest. George Soros made billions by short selling. We the people are the only ones who can set things straight for the benefit of our nation. We can buy the book and lobby our Congress and Senate to reign in these abuses. Mr. Diamond further listed all the nations who regulate hedge funds and those who do not. The regulator nations have growing economies. Jan Higgins Sonora Navy deployment To the Editor: I loved growing up in Tuolumne City; I even call it my hometown. I was raised with my six siblings on Bodenhammer Avenue, less than a quarter mile from my elementary school and one and a half miles from Summerville High School. My mother and father proudly have seven graduates from that school. After leaving Tuolumne, I felt like I had to leave and I joined the U.S. Navy. I am currently deployed in the Middle East and have had nothing but support from hometown friends and old school mates. I recently received a care package from a friend that I met at Summerville Elementary School. I was surprised to get the box and was grateful to have such great support from people I didn't know cared so much. I would like to thank all the people who have found me and sent care packages, as well as cards and letters. Randelle “Benner” Jelneck Tuolumne |
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