A classy man
Re: “A double victory for the United States at the World Cup – In a press conference before the victory against Iran, the captain of the American team gives a lesson on freedom and democracy”, Wednesday’s editorial.
Tyler Adams, the captain of the American football team, is a very classy young American. We should all learn a lesson from him about how to deal with people’s prejudices and lack of understanding, or their reluctance to understand differences and to accept those differences with respect. Thanks Tyler.
Jane Manning, Pleasanton, CA.
Boy, is the thesis wrong
Re: “Are our schools failing boys? Imbalances in incarceration, murder and suicide among young men suggest they are,” by Patrick B. Whalen, Tuesday Opinion.
Whalen, assistant to the president of curator Hillsdale College, uses research from the curator American Enterprise Institute to paint a bleak picture of the boys who make their way through our education system. The accompanying illustration of what looks like a depressed male skeleton adds to his thesis that schools are asking boys to believe they have no male nature, and it’s killing them.
He says that “the education of a boy is a preparation for manhood”. A good man should have the habits of “strength, independence, fidelity, responsibility and compassion”. Women can possess these habits too, he grudgingly admits. “Having them doesn’t mean you’re not a good woman, but their absence means you’re not a good man.”
In my opinion, every time you start raising children hoping that boys should learn one set of “manly” habits and girls should learn another set, you start to close the heavy door of judgment and doubt about students who do not. correspond to Whalen’s simplistic and, I believe, misogynistic vision of the education of our children.
Keith E. Johnson, Dallas/White Rock
Look to parents, not schools
Although giving us many poignant insights for food for thought, I think the author of the column has missed a very fundamental principle. For the first six years of his life, the parents have the boy for 24 hours. When he starts school, they still have him for 16 hours, and yet school is supposed to teach him how to be a man? To put it frankly, it’s passing the buck!
I never hoped to be like my teacher or principal, but I did hope many times to be at least half the man/father/uncle/brother/husband that my father was! Note that I used the term “dad”. I am now 81 and I think of the person who fathered me in an endearing way.
He prayed with me, taught me how to treat others, played games with me, had talk sessions with me, and was a shining example of how you should treat your wife.
In my opinion, the problem with most children (boys or girls) is that the American family has fallen apart. The end result is that millions of children have parents who don’t know how to parent!
Ernest L. Morrison, Frisco
Starve the former president’s campaign
What does a fire have to have to survive? Oxygen. I beg this newspaper and the media in general to deprive the former president of the oxygen that will feed him and fuel his “campaign”.
Treat him like he is – a loser. He failed his party, he failed his oath of office, he failed the presidency, and most importantly he failed his country. Along the way, he let us all down. Deprive him of the oxygen he needs for his movement to survive. Please.
Sharon Lathrop, Richardson
Gen Z voters will save us
Subject: “Reflections on the Midterm Elections”, Sunday Letters.
Several letters to the editor have indicated how democracy has been saved for now. But let’s give real credit to the women and Gen Zers who have come out in record numbers and will only grow in number. Women came out mainly because of the abortion decision, but Gen Zers came out because of the vote being taken away, women’s rights, the gun issue, climate change and other issues that are important to them. They are a force to be reckoned with.
This is a country that Gen Z needs to improve, because most of us will be gone and they will surely want a better country than this. I also believe that they want to protect democracy.
So don’t underestimate these young people. Some Republicans have even suggested raising the voting age to 21. Really ? However, they say that a 10-year-old child must carry a baby!
Gen Zers keep it up and keep saving us!
Cindy Gumpert, Southeast Dallas
The pot calls the black kettle
I expected to read quality and stimulating letters. But no, again letter after letter criticizing Republicans. It seems to me that the main idea was that the Republicans could investigate Hunter Biden and, of course, his father and their possible ties to China when they should be working on the issues we face.
This whimper from the people and the party who spent four years investigating President Donald Trump over and over again and trying to obstruct everything the Republicans came up with. What we have here is an actual case of the pot calling the black kettle.
Donald Reichert, Garland
Of all the misfortunes to settle, the tickets?
Here we are a few weeks away from the midterm and we hear of a new “investigation” to be undertaken in Washington, DC, by the new group of politicians. Russia? COVID-19[FEMALE?Inflation?Reducedhealthcarecostsorjobsand/ortrainingfortheneedy?No!ThetopicofthedaylastweekwastheTaylorSwiftandTicketmasterdebacle[FEMININE?Inflation?Coûtsdesoinsdesantéréduitsouemploiset/ouformationpourlesnécessiteux?Non!LesujetdujourlasemainedernièreétaitladébâcledeTaylorSwiftetTicketmasterS’ilteplaitWashingtonmetstesprioritésauclair
Marc W. Morisseau, Heath
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