Feedback on Prop V and Prop H ...
by , 2008-10-30
Editor:
Morgan Sparks says that "reprehensible acts" associated with JROTC -- threatening opponents of the program and the lives of school board members, forcing students into the supposedly "volunteer" program, beating cadets for "ritual punishment," fingering teachers for having anti-war posters in their rooms, and lying about recruitment statistics -- are all "isolated incidents."
Sure, and so were My Lai and Abu Ghraib.
I have been a PTA president, chair of San Franciscans Unified (a teacher-parent alliance), worked for San Francisco Volunteers for six years, and put two kids through San Francisco public schools. I have some idea about what it's like in the trenches. And I know that we do not need the Pentagon and the military to teach leadership and discipline to our youth.
The military is hardly "hands-off" in our schools. They are in our face.
Getting JROTC out of our schools is about saving the lives of our youth, keeping them from coming home in body bags, and denying the warmakers in Washington the cannon fodder for their illegal and immoral wars.
Marc Norton
San Francisco
To the Editor:
I started reading Eric Brooks' guest editorial supporting Proposition H (Clean Energy Act) with an open mind, but the article just ended up being a rant.
First of all, the price of natural gas has increased tremendously in the last couple years, this is a fact.
PG&E is a business, they sell a product, electricity. When their cost of doing business goes up, they have to raise the cost of their product. This is simple economics.
Second, PG&E gets a significant percentage of its energy from Hydroelectricity. They are also spending and estimated $2 billion on a solar plant in the Mojave desert. That is billion, with a 'B'.
Third, why the rant against nuclear power? The author classifies nuclear as dirty energy. Really? The cleanest method of generating electricity is nuclear. Eric Brooks needs to do some research.
Julio Barbosa
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