Dear Editor, I am writing on behalf of my support of Kirsten
Carr as a candidate for the MHUSD board. As a parent in my
second-grade classroom, she was what every teacher dreamed of.
Kirsten Carr knows what needs to be done and can make it happen
Dear Editor,
I am writing on behalf of my support of Kirsten Carr as a candidate for the MHUSD board. As a parent in my second-grade classroom, she was what every teacher dreamed of.
She was proactive, supportive and willing to do whatever it took to help enhance the education of the class.
She was a model parent who often helped to guide parents toward support opportunities at school.
In the community she has proven to be a leader as well. If you have ever seen her at work at the Garlic Festival, you get the feeling that the festival would not function without her. Her well-balanced life would bring a unique and needed perspective to the board.
As a former educator, current parent and community leader, she is just the type of person that needs to be on the school board. She understands what schools need, what parents need and most importantly what the students need. When Kirsten knows what needs to be done, she makes it happen. She wants Morgan Hill Unified to be the best it can possibly be.
Let’s give her the chance to bring that dream into reality.
Adrianne Wilkinson, Second Grade Teacher, Charter School of Morgan Hill
Understand the Republican program before Nov. 2
Dear Editor,
America needs good paying jobs for working families. Job production is agonizingly slow, but Republicans claim that extending tax cuts for the wealthy will fix this.
For nine years we have had these cuts in place, without much impact on jobs, but they did add to the wealth of 2 percent of America. With cuts in place from December 2007 to December 2008, 3.6 million workers became unemployed. January 2009, cuts still working, the nation lost 65,5000 jobs but 2 percent of Americans, the wealthy, did quite well. The cuts are in place today without adding jobs.
Extending these cuts will add billions to the deficit but Republican candidates tell us they will cut the Democratic, Socialist, government programs of Social Security and Medicare, to decrease the deficit. It is important that Americans understand the Republican program before Nov. 2.
Frank Crosby, Morgan Hill
GLBT community welcome at Congregation Emeth
Dear Editor,
Your Oct. 8 edition carried a story about the controversy concerning same-sex marriage announcements in the New Jersey Jewish Standard newspaper.
Reading the story I realized it was less about same-sex marriages and more about “the squeaky wheel gets the grease.” After stating that the newspaper would carry same-sex marriage announcements, a segment of Orthodox rabbis in the community protested. Then the newspaper said it would not carry those announcements so representatives from other denominations of Judaism protested.
Now the newspaper doesn’t know what to do. Presumably the next group to scream the loudest will be the group who will be heard, an unconscionable way for a newspaper to determine policy.
Fortunately this story does not reflect a point of view of all rabbinic authorities in the Jewish world. I join those rabbinic colleagues who emphasize that Judaism and Torah (the biblical Five Books of Moses) teaches that all of humanity was created in the image of God and are blessed.
The Bible teaches this and Congregation Emeth, the only synagogue in South County, affirms it by embracing and welcoming the GLBT community to worship with us.
Rabbi Debbie Israel, Congregation Emeth, Morgan Hill
