Looking for answers about Pride School
The Pride School Atlanta article raises several questions. First off, how can a kindergartner be identified as LGB or T?
Next, why is separating blacks from whites wrong, but separating LGBTs from straights is encouraged? If Christian Zsilavetz is bothered by “separate but equal education,” why establish a separate but, presumably, equal school?
Since “feeling” bullied is the main admission criterion, will the Pride School accept children who “feel” bullied or unaccepted because they’re white, male, religious, Southern, or politically conservative?
Is the school’s staff ready to deal with the bullying and harassment that will occur there? And it will occur: we’re talking about children.
Finally, one would expect a teacher of long standing to have better grammar than Zsilavetz has. Assuming he was quoted accurately, his first three statements contain a misplaced subject (“educators”), an incomplete sentence (introduced by “where,” referring to no place), and disagreement of number (“they … person”).
ADRIAN FILLION, ATLANTA
Don’t forget Deal gutted ethics board
A recent letter to the AJC on Gov. Nathan Deal’s legacy failed to mention one of Deal’s more unsavory actions — that of neutering the Ethics Commission when he was under investigation and facing possible court action. He and his hired hands simply gutted the Ethics staff, then hired their own folks, resulting in a minor fine for the governor. What followed was lawsuits by the disposed ethics staff resulting in the taxpayers of Georgia having to shell out some $2-plus million to cover his actions. Even now, months after the debacle, we have an ethics staff in name only — and they would not dare to confront the powers under the Gold Dome. In this case, just like the new paved road to his country home, the governor “had no role to play” in the flawed decisions.
DARRELL MCKINNEY, FAYETTEVILLE
