Funding doesn’t mean results in schools
I read with interest your article where Dan Domenech, Executive Director for National School Superintendents Association, continues to perpetuate the myth that the best-funded schools equal the best-ranked schools. This is so patently false that I cannot believe the head of the national superintendent association would assert it. There is little correlation between school funding and educational attainment. Some of the highest-ranked school systems in Georgia are in the bottom ranking for funding. Decatur City Schools, the number one school system in Georgia, is in the bottom third for funding in the state. A better correlation is the income level and educational attainment of the residents of the county.
NORMER ADAMS, FAYETTEVILLE
Temporarily halt all immigration
Donald Trump’s idea to pause immigration of all Muslims is appealing, but it isn’t fair or practical. Instead, why don’t we temporarily halt all immigration? No one has a right to come here if we don’t allow it. Make a few common sense exceptions for obviously safe people, but other than that slam the door until our government can come up with a way to effectively vet immigrants.
FRED STRICKLAND, MARIETTA
(770) 973-8953
Short-term funding bills underline incompetence
I had to laugh at Saturday’s AJC article about the Congress and the President signing a last-minute bill to keep the government running until Congress “has time” to put together a more sweeping funding bill (“Bipartisan deal quiets shutdown concerns,” News, Dec. 13). We’ve heard this two-three times per year for the last seven years. I think an alternative plan would be to somehow slow the Earth’s orbit around the sun to make the year a little longer, thus literally “giving Congress more time.” Frankly, that seems easier and more probable than Congress actually putting aside the sharp sticks and doing away with the endless posturing and actually getting something meaningful done.
DAVID PORTER, DORAVILLE
Republicans favor re-election over climate
The agreement on climate change is good news, but a binding treaty would have been much better for my growing family and all the world’s people. Maybe a treaty was only a slim possibility, but that chance was reduced to zero by members of the U.S. Congress. There could be no agreement without the U.S. and no agreement could survive congressional action. Hence no treaty. Perhaps some congressmen genuinely believe in their denial of man-made climate change, having deceived themselves by listening only to that with which they agree. For sure, there are others who know better but think denial to be essential to re-election. To make their grievous error more obvious, the Republican party is the only such organization in the entire world to deny climate change. It is deplorable for a party that has stood for so many good things to take this enormously harmful position.
HUGH W. LOWREY, AUSTELL
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