Published: September 23, 2009 10:24 pm      

Letters to the editor - Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009

Tribune gave parents needed information

Thank you for including Sts. Joan of Arc & Patrick School among the ISTEP scores in your Sept. 17 edition. In the past, local families have found it difficult to compare ISTEP scores when the private schools were printed on a different day from the public institutions.

As a youth advocate, I help prepare the youth of our community to be the next generation of American leaders, and I look for every possible opportunity for parents to gain benefits for their children. By enabling parents to fairly evaluate the educational opportunities available to them, the Kokomo Tribune has done a terrific service to our community!

Jeremy Burke

Kokomo

Are there safeguards to protect identities?

On the issue of privatization, and the resulting debacle or fiasco, either word applies with the FSSA, there is a bigger issue at stake.

Under privatization a private firm, not a governmental entity, does the actual behind-the-scenes work. Who? Where? Do we actually know? No, we do not, and therein hangs the sword.

Individuals, of whom we know zip, zilch, zero, have access to our sensitive information, i.e., Social Security and bank account numbers, dates of birth, mothers’ maiden names, etc. Sounds like fertile ground for identity thieves to me.

Kenneth Crockett

Kokomo

We must practice faith every day

We as Christians should hold up in prayer our Lord Jesus, who died for our sins. We are losing our freedoms to praise our Lord. Our country was founded on our faith, and we must use it every day.

Also, our country is in enough trouble without selling liquor on Sunday. We don’t need to add insult to injury.

I pray we hold our Lord up, for what is right and good in his sight.

Barbara Ferguson

Michigantown

Wealth doesn’t just disappear

I remember the Depression and how hard a time my parents had to put food on the table and shoes on our feet. In 1936, one of the worst winters we ever had, my father walked from Darrough Chapel to the train depot on North Buckeye Street to carry home a gunnysack of food given by the government.

My husband and I have worked hard all our lives, and we don’t relish the idea that the small amount of money we have saved may be devalued because of the mishandling by our economic leaders and politicians.

Wealth doesn’t disappear. It is stolen by those in high places, who know how to divert the wealth for their own purposes. They will line their own pockets.

Evelyn B. Harrington

Kokomo