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Maintain High-Quality Education System

To The Reader’s Forum: Area superintendents hit the nail on the head in discussing with The Post-Journal the teacher shortage that school districts across New York are facing (Retirements, enrollment changes push need for teachers, May 8). The U.S. Department of Education has officially designated about a dozen teacher shortage areas across New York, including in areas like special education, English as a Second Language, and even science, social studies and ELA. Yet enrollment in state teacher preparation programs has declined by 50 percent since 2009. Coming off Teacher ...

‘Diversity’ In The USA Is Presently Impossible

To The Reader’s Forum: A few weeks ago I heard the results of a survey revealing that out of over 100 professional financial advisers, only two were Black. Of course, the commentators said we need more “Diversity.” We would have Diversity in every part of our society if we had “Freedom in Education” in the USA! All we have are free public schools for students who do not have the chance or desire to attend a private school. Poor Blacks, Hispanics and whites trapped in the failing inner-city public schools are the big losers. About 15 years ago NPR reported that it cost ...

Start Making A Difference By Casting Your Vote, LadiesTo The Reader’s Forum: Over the years I haven’t always agreed with Norman Carlson, but I have to agree with your comments in the Readers’ Forum Thursday, April 15, 2021, “Hiding from the truth while having it both ways.” Yes, we (the United States) are finally facing many of our faults … racism, police reform, not educating our children and ourselves about our true history, the list goes on and on! We the people do have a voice in reforming our government for the better, not so in many other countries! Ladies be thankful you live in these United States. Educate yourself, look at what you have, compared to other countries, a lot!! We are all God’s children and I mean all!! No matter what your nationality, no matter where you live! Wake up, our country has a lot to correct, yes, you can be a part of this… respect, love, caring for people! Are you ladies trying to leave America? Are you not comfortable in your homes and in your town? I believe the answer is, “you are just fine!” Start making a difference to correct our mistakes by voting! Look around your neighborhood, city, what can you do to make it better?! Diane J. Peterson, Jamestown

To The Reader’s Forum: Over the years I haven’t always agreed with Norman Carlson, but I have to agree with your comments in the Readers’ Forum Thursday, April 15, 2021, “Hiding from the truth while having it both ways.” Yes, we (the United States) are finally facing many of our faults ... racism, police reform, not educating our children and ourselves about our true history, the list goes on and on! We the people do have a voice in reforming our government for the better, not so in many other countries! Ladies be thankful you live in these United States. Educate ...

A Few People Cause A Wasteland Of Destruction

To The Reader’s Forum: Giant wind turbines and vast fields of solar panels are not made of fairy dust brought by unicorns. Do ‘greens’ think we can’t see that huge quantities of raw materials and fossil fuels are used to mine, manufacture, transport and construct these intermittent, unreliable, grid crashing environmentally destructive scams? Hydro, and nuclear power have a small footprint and a small impact on the environment compared to the waste of “renewables”. People who have figured out that CO2 is essential plant food and not a problem know dual cycle gas turbines ...

Are Plant-Based Foods The Answer?

To the Reader’s Forum: So, I heard on Fox News that President Biden may be banning meat to combat global warming. Then I remembered that Colorado Democrat Governor Jared Polis had issued a similar proclamation last month. My first reaction was, what kind of cockamamie idea will the Democrats cook up next. But then I read the article they quoted, and it made a bit more sense. Apparently, a University of Michigan research report found that replacing 50% of animal products with plant-based foods would prevent more than 1.6 billion tons of greenhouse gasses by 2030, which is ...

Procurement Process Needs To Be Updated

To The Reader’s Forum: It is not often anymore that construction and redevelopment efforts occur in the Jamestown area or Chautauqua County. However the taxpayers of our region and state often frequently fund large and continuing construction projects at our region’s schools, municipal facilities and hospitals. Too often though these taxpayer funded agencies and governments are skirting the bare minimum required process to procure the services, contractors and materials required for these projects. It is in the best interest of all taxpayers of Chautauqua County that our elected ...