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Show In Your Opinion we need to do the job, where we are, and stop belly-aching about what someone else does. Grass greener in the other pasture? If so, are we not free to go there? Why always a selfish, trouble-making ruckus? Few do well in an adversarial atmosphere, at-mosphere, like when our teachers walked off the job in Davis County and did not have the courtesy of notifying parents. Professionalism? It is stupid me-too-ism. Perhaps the teachers ought to pay back to the district for the time they are off the job but being paid anyway. In my experience, kids are important, impor-tant, smart human organisms who like challenge. They do put values first, and if the administrations would give them a chance they would not deitize sports nor selfish pursuits, but like to experience fulfillment in the abstract as well as the practical. Kids are like other humans, they need to be wanted, to be needed, to be recognized, and to contribute. W. G. Emmett Bountiful Year Plan, and KSL television has made the same comment in an on-the-air editorial. The Davis County Clipper has made no mention of the legislation being proposed to implement the Five Year Plan, but they did choose to publish a half-page editorial and cartoon claiming the necessity for a corporal punishment law to "prevent" teachers from beating their students, even making the absurd ab-surd claim that such types of punishment occur "more often than not" in schools. In my 13 years as an educator, I have never seen a teacher strike a child. Although I don't object to this proposed law, personally I believe that physical punishment is not a major problem in Utah schools. Inasmuch as the Clipper has been a valuable source of information for the citizens of Davis County for so many years, I suggest you reexamine re-examine your editorial priorities and focus on issues of greater importance. im-portance. Kalyn Denny Executive Board Davis Education Association Kids should attend school of choice Editor: The "Cyclops" column terms a student a social animal. He or she is not an animal but a human being, an offspring of the Almighty in the spirit that enters the human body when same is bom. Principals do not like their boats rocked; the writer has been one and likes to be assured of a job. Forcing one to attend a school is foreign to human nature and since the parents are paving through taxes and out of pocket for their children's education, edu-cation, they should therefore have a say as to where they go to learn and who teaches them. As to attending various schools, many families move, and it does not shake a student up as much as the theorists think it does to change environment. en-vironment. The children in military families change all the time, as well as those whose parents are transferred trans-ferred in their jobs. Change is broadening and good, and educational. educa-tional. The reason children do better in the private school is because, more often than not, Christian ethics may be taught and the curriculum is of a vertical nature, not more of the same. When unbelieving courts rule a separation between church and state, the idea of a Supreme Being is left out giving room for Godlessness. Before Deweyism took over, I went to school in Canada where the Bible was taught. This did not make us Catholics, Latter-lay Saints or Buddhists, but made us better at what we already were and professed. Why have our people always got to react? Why have we got to have something which someone else has in terms of so-called fairness? Why do we not just request that which three existing golf courses, two swimming pools, an amusement park and an airport. In the not too distant future we will even be sporting spor-ting our own LDS Temple. We have most of the major fast food chains and grocery stores galore. Which, by the way are all built on a slope so that while you are unloading your cart, it rolls downhill into the car parked next to yours. Now I ask you, what more could consumers possibly ask for? Is it true this little bedroom community has every consumer good that we need? Not by a long shot! Have your readers noticed that any shopping for clothing is a real problem here? We have such a limited selection that we are forced to travel to one or the other lasger cities to do any shopping. In fact, selection is so limited that most of us don't even consider looking here first, we just head for the mall, taking our hard earned dollars with us to spend elsewhere. Space to build does not seem to be the problem and we have population popula-tion enough to draw from. I am told that plans have been in the making before, but what is the holdup? Maybe the failure of some businesses busi-nesses in ive Points Mall scares investors. It just stands to reason that if there was a facility sufficient to house at least two major department depart-ment stores, i.e.,- Mervyns or ZCMI for instance, that consumers in this area would opt to shop here for convenience. I feel that all business in the area would benefit. Selection gives us options and in having more options, consumers would be more likely to spend their hard earned cash in their own community rather than supplying funds to build up other communities around us. Unfortunately, the powers that be have decided that we need yet another an-other golf course! Who is planning our community anyway, car dealers and golfers??? Jolene Anderson North Salt Lake Focus on issues of greater import Editor: Two crucial pieces of legislation affecting public education have been introduced this legislative session. ses-sion. Both bills deal with the Five Year Strategic Plan for public education edu-cation which legislators have been promising since the teacher walkout in 1989, with the Bradford Bill outlining the Strategic Plan and the Arlington Bill providing target dates and a funding commitment to implement the proposals. To date, both major Salt Lake papers have carried lengthy articles and editorials asserting that additional addi-tional funding for education must be a component of the state's Five DC needs store not golf course Dear Editor, Let's quit "puttering" around! I guess you could say I'm a little "teed" off. In fact I feel like kicking kick-ing a few "tires." It seems to me that we folks from Farmington to North Salt Lake have gotten ourselves into quite a "sand trap." Not only are we "driving" too many golf balls, but we're also driving driv-ing too many cars! For instance, are you aware of the fact that there are currently 12 new car dealerships in our small area, not to mention numerous used car lots. We have nine major tire stores. |