Dear Editor:
I tried not to respond, but I just HAD to, after reading the
letter from reader Karen Helner in Monday’s Dispatch.
Dear Editor:
I tried not to respond, but I just HAD to, after reading the letter from reader Karen Helner in Monday’s Dispatch.
I guess I’m using the term “reader” lightly, however, since it is obvious that both Karen Helner and Rebecca Childers (see last Tuesday’s Dispatch) apparently were alumni in whatever failed reading programs they must have attended during their school years.
Okay, I’ll cut Ms. Helner a little slack in that she apparently submitted her letter back on April 30, and it was just published on May 10, but that’s where the slack ends. The response was obviously generated by somebody who either did not (or cannot) read the facts, and decided to jump hastily on Spaceship Ignorance, which should never have left the launch pad in the first place.
Denise Baer Apuzzo, in her column of Thursday, May 6, echoed my thoughts – and thoughts of countless others, no doubt – when she wrote in response to Ms. Childers’ obviously-ignorant “stripping is stripping” posting.
GROUND CONTROL TO SPACESHIP IGNORANCE: Are you there? (silence) Do you read, over? (no response) CAN YOU READ, period??
Ladies, are you there????? Put down your pet store puppies for a moment and try reading with comprehension. Okay, ready? We’ll take it slow, and let it sink in. Repeat after me, because this will definitely be on the exam: SHE … IS … NOT … A … STRIPPER. Isn’t now, never was, never will be. Sheesh! Who says our schools are in trouble??
It’s pretty scary when the really excellent teachers, like Kristen Porter, are the same ones who are fired -– only to be further bashed by the ignorant people who could’ve benefited most from said teachers’ reading classes in the first place.
IGNORANCE IS IGNORANCE, EVEN IF THERE’S NO NUDITY
Jeff Byler, Hollister
Submitted Monday, May 10 to ed****@************ch.com
