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Letters to the Editor
October 25, 2009
GISD Options Can Be Whittled Down To One
The Oct. 12 issue of the The Daily News had a graphic presented by Galveston Independent School District that showed nine options for reconfiguring 12 GISD schools.
Following GISD’s usual standard of operating, it tried to complicate and confuse the public so its constituents would remain silent.
Let me translate the 120-box table in understandable terms.
There aren’t nine options for 12 schools. In fact, options three through seven don’t even include a school for children in grades five through eight.
Parker, Oppe, Crenshaw, Austin, Alamo and Ball High schools will all remain exactly as they are now.
The two biggest differences are Weis will become an “at-risk and disciplinary” school and all Galveston students in regular classes in grades five through eight will attend Central Middle School.
Although the graphic showed several different options for Central, the trustees must accept putting all students in grades five through eight at that school. The entire 120-box graphic offered no other place for fifth- through eighth-graders to go. Therefore, box 1 was really the only option.
So, it’s business as usual — the GISD administration is forcing the citizens to accept the two things they asked administrators not to do. It wants to put fifth-graders and eighth-graders all in one school.
No options there. Thanks, GISD.
Trudy Davis
Galveston
A Treaty To End Our National Sovereignty
I attended an environmental regulatory conference in London. I learned of something quite troubling ahead of us and it isn’t about the icecaps melting.
At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, a treaty will be signed that assaults the sovereignty of the United States.
There are three reasons for this treaty. First, to establish a world “government,” second, to transfer wealth from the West to the Third World, to pay a “climate debt,” and, finally, enforcement. If signed, the obstacles to repeal it would make it close to impossible.
On Oct. 14, Lord Christopher Monckton, a noted climate-change skeptic, gave a presentation in St. Paul, Minn. and I believe he said it best — “Thank you, America. You were the beacon of freedom to the world. It is a privilege merely to stand on this soil of freedom while it is still free.
“But, in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy and your humanity away forever.
“And neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back.”
Richard Hayes
Galveston
GHA Efforts Always In The Wrong Direction
Public housing is a hand out, not a hand up. There aren’t any requirements for folks who receive assistance who are able to work and obtain employment. Being employed would allow people to be more self-sufficient.
About five years ago, I asked Galveston Housing Authority why people who could work aren’t required to do so. I was told it would be discrimination.
I suggested GHA start a job-training program. The staff came back asking who would take care of the children. I suggested GHA train members of the complexes to run day-care facilities. That would create jobs. I was told there was no funding.
It is hard to believe, with resources on the island, plus state and federal funding, that GHA can’t get out of the business of warehousing people and begin to assist them with a means to improve their lives.
Rebuilding any housing now with GHA’s present polices would create more generations of people dependent on government assistance, not self-sufficient citizens.
Domenico Nuckols
Galveston
Appalling Story Of Mom’s CPR Rule Battle
I was appalled and saddened when I read the article “Mother fights to change CPR rules” (The Daily News, Oct. 22) about a mother who lost her son just shy of his second birthday in this heartless, cold world.
The mother is petitioning for change to a policy in which it’s up to a police officer’s discretion whether or not to perform CPR on an individual. I have worked for agencies in which either we took an oath or it was left up to our discretion. In both cases, we had to ask permission to perform aid.
It bothers me that a mother pleaded with an officer to help her baby and he argued with the family because they were upset that they were losing a child due to his choice of action.
Chief Robert Burby put it so elegantly:“This shouldn’t even be an issue to argue about.” Even though it was Officer L.J. Williamson’s choice to perform the procedure at his discretion, it makes me wonder. What if it had been his child or family member?
From a Christian perspective, this was a child — it should just be human nature to perform CPR.
Stacy Bennett
Texas City
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