Re “Career-ready education needed in Virginia schools” (Different Perspectives, Nov. 30): Glenn Marshall was once 100% right kind. And, Virginia isn’t the one commonwealth or state within the nation the place that is true.
There are some luck tales in profession and technical training in our house. The automobile mechanic and body-work methods don’t have any downside discovering intern positions for college kids and employment for graduates. Additionally, the connection that Stihl has with profession and technical training in Virginia Seaside furnishes Stihl with small-engine-repair graduates.
Then again, the issue is simply too many children are looking to pass to school. First, just about all folks need their youngsters to visit faculty. Tens of millions of greenbacks had been spent by way of govt and schools to persuade folks their youngsters received’t be a luck except they attend faculty. 2nd, some folks are “afraid,” although they know that their kid isn’t faculty subject matter and isn’t going to make it in faculty, on account of what others will say once they be told Susie goes to be a chippie, welder, plumber or electrician. 3rd, counselors within the faculties simplest attempt to get children to go into faculty. It seems that faculties have advanced a option to “grade” counselors: A lot of scholarships, plus many graduates getting into faculty within the fall, equals excellent. Fourth, there are too many of us with a background in training all for training.
Excellent success to you, Glenn Marshall. I go away you with this announcing by way of John W. Gardner, “The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble job and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy as a result of it’s an exalted job can have neither excellent plumbing nor excellent philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will cling water.”
Bob Lyons, Norfolk
I’m a small industry proprietor. I’m a father. I’m a husband. With the Recognize for Marriage Act, I’m additionally secure, it doesn’t matter what state I reside in.
Not too long ago, Congress handed the Recognize for Marriage Act, codifying reputation of same-sex and interracial marriages. It is a aid for households comparable to mine. After the Perfect Court docket overturned just about a part a century of abortion rights with the Dobbs resolution, Justice Clarence Thomas implied that felony precedents for same-sex marriage can be subsequent to move.
With that and state legislatures’ expanding assaults on LGBTQ+ rights, it seemed that all of the growth we’ve revamped contemporary a long time was once below risk. After being married in Maryland in 2013 we now have spent the previous 9 years construction our circle of relatives all of the whilst questioning if any person would attempt to sabotage the American dream we’ve labored so laborious to construct. We will be able to now proceed construction the most productive lifestyles conceivable for our kids figuring out we will reside loose and with appreciate in america.
However the pleasure is bittersweet as a majority of Area Republicans voted towards the Recognize for Marriage Act. It’s laborious to fathom that during 2022, there are 169 representatives who imagine I must be handled as a second-class citizen. It is very important elect individuals who appreciate all marriages and who appreciate the rights of all American citizens to reside below the tenants of “lifestyles, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Christian Odd, Norfolk
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Due to the Humane Society and others, one small a part of inhuman remedy of animals could also be coming to an in depth. The Virginia Zoo in Norfolk is a major instance of this cruelty. Large cats and different massive mammals (giraffes, and many others.) that roam over sq. miles within the wild or on preserves, are given a lot smaller areas at our zoo. Like maximum animals in such restricted house, they quickly showcase the psychosis transparent in animals condemned to such distress. The consistent pacing, the clean stare, the loss of reaction to stimuli are simply among the behaviors that any kid can see.
Dian Fossey and any choice of flora and fauna preservationists have denounced zoos for his or her inherent cruelty. Don’t be fooled by way of the painted vistas. The animals can’t see them; they’re for human intake, designed to mitigate the most obvious cruelty. The oft cited argument that zoos keep species is a laughably merciless comic story. The Norfolk Town Council and company donors must commit much-needed budget in different places.
David Wynne, Virginia Seaside
Even supposing I don’t reside in her district (Thanks, Rep. Bobby Scott.), I discovered it laugh-out-loud hilarious every time I noticed the Congresswoman-elect Jen Kiggans or Republican advertisements operating about how continuously Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria voted with Area Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Joe Biden (99%?).
What makes it so humorous, or most likely it’s simply my political humor, is that now that Kiggans has received, her statistics will most probably pass so far as 100% of balloting for no matter Republican Area Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell get a hold of. (Do Republicans also have a plan, rather than being towards Biden?) In any case, Republicans have obviously observed the “top worth” (Rep. Liz Cheney?) to be paid for considering “independently” and striking “nation ahead of celebration.”
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