Players of less-popular sports don’t get the luxury of having their transportation provided.
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Rides missing
I am a junior at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School. One thing I have noticed is the disproportionate amount of money allocated to programs. I especially notice this difference as a member of our school’s bowling team. We get little to no transportation provided by the school. This year, we have taken school buses twice and school vans once. The rest of the time, we have to transport ourselves, some of us struggling if we can’t drive ourselves or find a ride.
While other sports get up to three buses, we can’t even get one. I know that this is not unique to our bowling program, or even our school or district. I think it is unfair to those of us who put our hard work into these activities only for the school to seemingly barely care about us compared with other sports and activities.
There should be a more proportionate budget and recognition for those of us in unpopular sports and activities — and for girls sports programs, as they get less recognition than the boys.
– Graeme Hobbs, Shawnee
History deleted
The most significant fear of white people (or sub-minorities selling their souls to receive white privilege) about teaching African American studies: White children will then understand systemic racism and fight against it.
White people fear the teaching of Black history because it will make their children sad learning their white ancestors raped, killed, enslaved, chained, maimed, experimented on, beat, bred and emasculated the African American society for centuries.
Those against teaching African American history fear their children will be sympathetic or compassionate toward the African American community, which might relieve them of their entitlement.
It’s the worst form of child abuse: delusion and removal of free will in making a decision based on facts that accurately depict African Americans’ history.
Many Republicans pushing to excise the truth from our public schools’ lessons send their children to exclusive private schools to hide the heinous acts of our history. These schools will put their crimes against the United States, minorities and the poor in a positive light, thus repeating the same cycle of cruelty.
– Linda Lorraine Kamal, Kansas City
Why he’s there
On Jan. 21, The Star ran an Associated Press story on the meeting of allied defense chiefs in the war in Ukraine at Ramstein Air Base. (2A, “Defense chiefs fail to agree on tanks for Ukraine”) The caption of an accompanying photo described Oleksii Reznikov as a “Ukrainian participant.”
Reznikov is no mere “participant” in this meeting. He is minister of defense of the sovereign nation of Ukraine, which is under brutal attack from Russia and fighting for democracy and his nation’s very existence. His title is equivalent to those of the others in the photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and German Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (whose first name was misspelled).
Ukrainians are not passive participants in some faraway drama. They are fighting with everything they have and are losing their lives every day. Please be more informed and improve your copy editing.
– Shari L. Wilson, Kansas City, Kansas
Editor’s note: A correction to the photo caption misspelling was published Jan. 31 on Page 2A.
Not so ‘fair’
The Republicans have become overbold to the point of being either reckless or mad. Some now serving in Congress want to cut both Social Security and Medicare and apply that money to the deficit. Then they want to repeal the federal income tax and replace it with a federal sales tax of 30%. They call this the “Fair Tax.”
Just a few short months ago, the GOP was trying to win the midterms by blaming 9% inflation on the president, hoping to stir up resentment by those feeling the sting at the supermarket. Now they want to increase that pain by another 30% while throwing seniors into the ditches along the way.
As for this new tax that they are planning for the country, the only people it would be fair to are the rich, and this includes the billionaires, the millionaires and tens of thousands of other rich fat cats who would be purring with delight if it happens, while the middle class would be left holding a mostly empty grocery bag — not to mention the hundreds of thousands of businesses that would be forced to close.
– Michal Betz, Wichita
Jesus’ teaching
Do you want to follow Jesus? Instead of banning books, how about providing assistance to the poor, health care to the sick, wages to the workers, homes for the immigrants and justice for the oppressed?
– Thomas Krause, Kansas City
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