Stumped by DeKalb schools’ budget crisis
Regarding the DeKalb schools budget crisis (“DeKalb whittles at deficit,” Metro, May 30), I can only ask: Why does it cost so much to poorly educate our children?
Perhaps we should poll the hundreds (if not thousands) of DeKalb’s school administrators for this answer. The teachers are too busy trying to do their jobs to ask them.
Gerson Paull, Atlanta
Same-Sex Marriage
Obama not only one with an evolved view
I am a long-married heterosexual and, like President Barack Obama, my views on the subject of same-sex marriage have evolved.
For a long time, I thought civil unions should suffice for couples who wanted to make a commitment to one another and have all the legal protections of marriage.
Two things made me change my mind.
One was a letter to the editor several years ago from a black woman who said all the arguments she heard for civil unions being good enough reminded her of the arguments for separate-but-equal facilities in the Jim Crow era. Separate but equal is not the same as equal. Civil unions are not the same as marriage.
The second thing that changed my mind was knowing a same-sex couple in a loving, committed relationship. They are not trying to change (or bring down) the institution of marriage. They just want to live their lives — like any other loving couple.
Maureen Berry, Marietta
Ga. politicians can be bought for so little
I am not surprised that lobbyists can (and do) buy Georgia politicians. I am surprised that they can be bought so cheaply.
I wonder what the going rate is in our neighboring states. William Doxey, Carrollton
Business experience didn’t help Bush
Mitt Romney infers that President Barack Obama isn’t doing a good job because he has no business experience.
As I recall, former President George W. Bush had plenty of business experience — and look at the everlasting problems he brought to this country.
James McKune, Woodstock
‘Unreasonable’ is an understatement
Regarding a reader’s letter (“Blame poor planning for mess at airport,” Readers write, Opinion, May 30), I could not agree more.
My recent flight from Zurich landed at terminal E and I walked for 25 minutes before reaching the customs area in Concourse F. I live in Atlanta and was told I had to proceed to Concourse F for processing. My mother (who was traveling with me but connecting to a flight to Ohio) was told she had to process through Concourse E. I was not allowed to see her off at her connecting gate. She is 85 years old, but fortunately, a wheelchair was provided for her and wonderful assistance got her to her gate without any further hassle.
The letter writer’s calling the distance from the gate at Concourse E to Concourse F “unreasonable” is definitely an understatement.
This situation has to be looked at closely. A fix is needed ASAP.
Scott Shearer, Morrow
