school system attended by underage children? Let’s even put sexual orientation aside. These meetings are directly or indirectly promoting sexual promiscuity.
It is beginning to appear as though there is an orchestrated effort to undermine the success of many students. For example, a social studies course properly entitled Participation in Government was abbreviated (by Albany mandate, as told to me by a school counselor) as PIG Issues. The students thought this abbreviation on their schedules was humorous and therefore did not take the course seriously. Perhaps, the abbreviation was purposely imposed, to keep young people out of a well defined government hierarchy of self serving politicians involved in graft and corruption.
In addition, school counselors are advising students on which courses are “important to graduate” and which courses are “unneeded”. Why should a student or anyone for that matter work on a project that is unneeded? This is bad advice to give a student.
School districts certainly cannot be blamed for all of society’s woes. However, they do not need to further contribute to the problems. Schools can be and should be one of the stabilizing forces in a student’s life.
Yours truly,
Barbara Nikonoff
The above letter was copied to the local school superintendent and local board of education. The Federal Department of Education was copied as well as a New York State senator.
In June spouse, son, and I attended daughter’s high school graduation ceremony. Years earlier I had graduated from the same school. Three hundred and twenty one students graduated with daughter. Four hundred and ninety six students graduated with me. The county population of people grew by approximately one third from 1976 to 2002. Based on these figures and with comparable fertility rates, my hypothesis is that probably more than half of daughter’s graduating class was aborted. During the ceremony there were three students each to the left and right (total of six students) of the central speaker at the podium, who were translating speeches into sign language. I thought that only one person was necessary to accomplish this translation should there have been persons in the audience who were hearing impaired. After the ceremony, one became aware of a student friend of daughter’s who “won” a scholarship to a nearby college. After congratulating her and her parents on this award, I was informed of the school’s tuition. The student’s mother stated that the annual tuition to this mediocre school was thirty thousand dollars and that the five thousand dollar annual scholarship received still made the college expensive. The parents had another school in mind for the student to attend that was less costly however because of the scholarship award, the student insisted on attending the more costly school. I stated to spouse that a scholarship of this nature was nothing more than a discount coupon that served to entice and influence students into enrolling in an expensive school resulting for some in large debts.