Fast action by BSO
Dear Editor:
I want to thank BSO Chief Sudler and his deputies for their fast action in stopping a rash of burglaries in Deer Run and the Gates of Hillsboro on July 7, including an invasion into my neighbor’s house while his kids were home. Thankfully, they were not harmed. BSO caught up with these vermin and have one in custody. I am sure the others will be caught soon. Thank you to all who protect us.
Ira Goodstadt
Deerfield Beach
Deciding layoffs
Dear Editor:
I hope it is the city of Deerfield’s position to give resident employees preference when it comes time to lay off individual city employees. Residents should get bonus points over non-residents when hiring new employees. I don’t think the city will get substandard people by using this practice, as was the old union argument.
Stanley D. Flower
Deerfield Beach
Legion of Honor
Dear Editor:
Back in October 2010, I received a letter from the French Ambassador advising me that the President of France had signed a decree naming me a “Chevalier” of the Legion of Honor. The Legion of Honor was created by Napoleon in 1802 “to acknowledge service rendered to France by people of great merit.”
On August 18, a ceremony will be held at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, at which time an official of the French government will place the Legion of Honor medal around my neck.
Percy Paget
Lighthouse Point
RE: Code of Conduct
Dear Editor:
Please tell me why the Broward County Public Schools Code of Conduct handbook, e-mailed out July 1, was for the first time distributed electronically in English, Spanish, Haitian, Creole and Portuguese? Please tell me that this is a joke, as we are in America where ENGLISH is the ONLY language that should be spoken and written.
If people from other countries want to live here, then they need to learn our language or leave if they choose not to do that. Why should we cater to them? EVERYTHING should be in ONLY ENGLISH: Driver’s License Test, School Board Papers, anything to do with schools, period.
No other country would cater to us, why should we cater to them? Whoever decided that the school board needs to send out Code of Conduct in other languages needs to be fired. The same goes for whoever agreed to do that.
Everyone has the right to live here, but not if they do not want to learn our ways. STOP making it easy on those people to not learn. If we did everything in only English, they would have to learn or leave – their choice.
Jennifer Marie Read
Pompano Beach
