Congrats on 50th Anniversary!
Dear Editor:
On behalf of the staff, participants and Board of the NE Focal Point, we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you and the Observer Team on your 50th Anniversary.
Thank you for being a wonderful community partner! We enjoy reading the Observer newspaper each week to find out about our community, friends and neighbors. Our very best wishes for continued success!
Donna DeFronzo
Director of Senior Services
NE Focal Point
“Many homes do not even have a newspaper…”
Dear Editor:
When students don’t learn, many say ‘fire the teachers.’ It is never the students who don’t do their work, nor the parents.
There are many studies completed by top colleges like Yale, etc., that say it is not the teachers, it is the parents. Their academic success is [due to] “parental involvement.” (Really?) It doesn’t matter whether private or public school? It has been proven that just having books in the house makes a huge difference in a child’s development, [compared to] if your home just has video games, TV or, like Sarah Palin, who wrote on her hand because her father used to do it.
Yes, there are crappy teachers but so are there crappy parents, cops, soldiers, politicians, sanitation men, business executives, union leaders.
Do we say ‘let’s fire cops’ because crime in their area has increased or [question] did they fix the stats?
Many homes do not even have a newspaper (like The New York Times, Washington Post or The Wall Street Journal) and sports and partying is [considered] more important than studying.
Because the truth is that:
a) Improving education is a very long process that can take many years, but can be done.
b) Improving education means improving the area where students live and who their role models are.
We need to:
c) Change values in America, where football is considered more important than science
d) Create more jobs in the economy – and we know government can only do so much.
e) Spend more and wiser in inner cities, which are still racially and economically segregated.
f) Give minorities a chance, along with our fastestgrowing group of immigrants.
g) Reduce crime by police in “bad” areas.
Marty Weisberg
Coral Springs
