Leftist mayoral candidates
You could call it the march of the six dwarves. I do. The latest flick for children, you say? No, it’s something even stranger: I’m referring to the six Democratic candidates for mayor.
All of them are cut from various shades of the same cloth — color it leftist. The most extreme example, no doubt, is Jim Kenney, who’s so far left all he lacks is Karl Marx’s endorsement (in case you’re waiting for that, don’t hold your breath, Jim!).
Nonetheless, that entire crew cannot grasp the simple truth that the way to improve a city or a wider society requires a three-fold approach: cultural, economic and political. Neglect one of these and your entire enterprise will either fail or produce only mediocre results. On the cultural front, in this age of decline, high crime and moral laxity, a restoration of traditional morality is the only real solution.
I call upon all future candidates for public office to use the bully pulpit of their campaigns to push for this, and to stop pandering to insignificant sexual minorities.
Let’s all (voter and campaigner alike) look to the true greater good.
George Tomezsko
Fox Chase
Looking for good Marines
All Divisions Detachment is looking for Marines and Corpsmen who served with the Marines to join our active organization.
Those interested may contact Charlie Trainor at 267–281–2228 for information. The first year’s dues are paid by the detachment, and meetings are the third Wednesday of the month at Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 Hall at 11630 Caroline Road.
Don Campanile
Marine Corps League
Enough with the robo-calls
Sarah DelRicci lost the special election even though the registration in the district is overwhelmingly Democratic. I am sure that I am not the only person who got so annoyed by DelRicci’s constant robo-calls (early morning, mid-day, dinnertime and throughout the evening) that I decided I could not vote for her.
Romona Flitter
Somerton
Parents need to be more involved in kids’ education
There is an old computer software saying, “garbage in, garbage out,” which means that if the program is poorly written or the data that is entered is incorrect, the results cannot be accurate.
In no way do I mean to compare public school children to garbage, but uninvolved and undereducated parents who offer little guidance and academic support to their children will be unlikely to, as a group, send the same caliber of student to school as well-educated involved parents where the environment is likely to be more positive. Schools reflect society, not the reverse.
Blaming “poverty” for poor academic and behavioral performance ignores the question as to whether many are poor because there are a greater number of families led by less capable, poorly motivated parents. One could argue that in some cases family poverty can be the result of poor values and effort rather than poverty itself being the cause of poor academic and behavioral outcomes. Many successful people have risen from an impoverished background. To deny this is to ignore that being in the mud temporarily is not the same as being of the mud permanently.
Many “scholars” who write about public schools, quoting each other’s books and articles, probably have not spent a month, let alone a day, teaching before a city public school class, and therefore are not in a position to offer meaningful comments about the realities causing poor performance.
They complain about the effect of violence in the schools but ignore the fact that it is the students who are responsible, students who, by law, have to be kept on roll. Suspending a student many times a year and saying that in doing so, the school is depriving him of his education, misses the point. The misbehaving student is depriving others of their own education.
Much is rightfully said about the underfunding of public schools, but throwing money at the public schools without addressing the real reasons for their lack of success will have no more beneficial effect than would re-arranging the deck chairs as the Titanic was sinking.
Mel Flitter
Somerton
