SPEAKOUT

Friday, April 4, 2014

Getting down to the core

I know this won't get put in the paper before the election, but I think there needs to be something put in about this teacher who was threatened and bullied by our fine school administration for speaking out at the state capital against Common Core. There's video of it. A 20-year kindergarten teacher and they want to bully her? And they want us to pass this huge bond issue because they know what's right for our kids? They don't even support their staff. Do you think they really care about the taxpayers who have to work to support this bond? No. The answer is no. Enough is enough. When you treat your employees that way, we don't trust you. I think there needs to be a major house cleaning, starting at the top and working its way down through all the administration. The City of Sikeston needs to back off from this issue and say we are no longer supporting this. This is hurting the City of Sikeston with jobs and everything. They're seeing how they are treating their employees and they'll go to Cape or somewhere else. Sorry. This issue needs to be addressed in the paper and everyone needs to get out and vote no against the bond.

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I hope everyone had an opportunity to watch the testimony in front of the Senate committee on education in Jefferson City. A kindergarten teacher from Sikeston, and another teacher from Sikeston, gave testimony on how the Sikeston School Board members, from the president on down, Sikeston school administration officials and other teachers were intimidating them and bullying others and telling them not to speakout or say anything against Common Core or they would lose their jobs. Now I ask you, what kind of school system are we dealing with here when the school board and administration would deny their teachers their right under the Constitution of free speech? And to think that these people are educating our children? I will definitely be voting no on the school bond issue on April 8.

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In regards to the March 27 SpeakOut, the new Common Core standards are crap. If I want my children to learn more about perverts raping and molesting children, I will let them read the front page of every newspaper around and make them watch the evening news. Common Core is promoting the acceptance of perverted curriculum. I'm sick of same-sex marriage, men with men, women marrying women, dogs and cats holding hands on the street corners. Stop cramming this crap down everybody's throats. Lock up the perverts and let the pot smokers go. It's just putting the wrong people in the closet. I didn't realize there was so many in the *&^% closet anyway. The right to work speakout was right on the money. Politicians being bought off by special interest groups to support more profits and private agenda for big corporations. In 2013, our representatives in Jefferson City took in $968,000 in lobbyists gifts. In other states they call this bribes and it's against the law. One House committee dinner cost $4,800 paid for by lobbyists. One representative had to ask a lobbyist in a committee meeting what his own bill contained because the lobbyist wrote the bill. Property tax is not an equal tax. Does the farmland inside the city limits pay the same property tax as the homeowners? No. This tax has a domino effect. The price of everything will go up. Will the largest landowner in Sikeston, which is the city itself, pay property tax? BMU owns more new buildings and more land than anybody else in town. If this tax is passed, it will take the shoes off the kids. The parents cannot afford the tax. Rent will go up. Groceries will go up. Let the school district do what the parents do, buy one pair at a time.

Opposed are anonymous

I find it interesting that all the letters to the editor regarding the school bond issue have been in favor of the school bond. It seems that those who are against the school bond are too afraid or embarrassed in their position to write a letter and sign it with their personal name. It's very easy to call in and criticize those who are trying to build this community.

Tearing it down

I'm like everyone else, I'm calling in about the Sikeston school bond issue. My home is about the same age as these schools they want to tear down. Over the years, I've maintained mine and kept it in good shape. If this school bond passes, maybe I can tear mine down and do without a home to avoid paying this tax. Is it gonna increase or improve the educational aspect of the students?