Published: April 10, 2008 04:53 pm            

LETTERS: April 11, 2008

Zoller: Help support, educate children



According to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau estimates, there are an approximately 13,000 young children in Clark County and approximately 10,000 young children in Floyd County. From birth to age eight is a crucial time for their growth and development, and it is a time when our community can help prepare children for life and school success.

April 13-19 is Week of the Young Child. Promoting the theme, “Bring Communities Together for Children - Children Bring Communities Together,” Week of the Young Child is a time to recognize the needs of young children and their families, and to thank the adults involved in education and care of young children. Parents, teachers, caregivers, and other adults play important roles in the lives of young children, and Week of the Young Child celebrates their efforts.

Week of the Young Child is a good time for all of us to acknowledge the needs of children and work together on their behalf.

I hope that every adult in our community will take this opportunity to make a difference. From volunteering at a local program to supporting quality early education, our collective efforts matter.

— Amy Zoller, education coordinator, SIEOC Child Care Resource & Referral



Don’t take incumbents for granted



I appreciated Dennis Feiock's letter to the editor today. I have not yet received my tax assessment and now I dread it's coming in the mail.

We do have a way of changing things in Floyd County. We have an opportunity to vote this May and again in November.

We can/should carefully examine the voting records of all incumbents. If we have not actually received what was promised from the incumbents on a local, state and federal level, they need to be removed from office and replaced. Floyd County has had poor voter turnout for quite a while and why is not evident.

We need to hold our elected officials accountable for their promises not kept. And voting them out is the only way to let them know that we have not found their actions to be for the people who elected them in the first place.

— Elizabeth Madden, Georgetown





Greater Clark parent disagrees with layoffs



Shame on the Greater Clark County School Board. The fact that GCCS is laying off teachers in already over-crowded schools is appalling. As a parent of a GCCS student, I am angry and I am going to vote.

I urge parents to take their children to a school board meeting and allow those selfish and irresponsible people to explain to our children why they are treating their future with such reckless abandon. No Child Left Behind seems to have no meaning in this community. If we don't recognize the invaluable contributions of teachers to our children and support them accordingly, all of us will pay dearly in the future.

— Tony L. Sheppard, Jeffersonville

        

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