Who knows what might set off Korean war?
To the editor:
If you keep poking a stick at a rattlesnake, sooner or later it’s going to strike back.
Even though it would be suicidal for North Korea to start any kind of war, I feel the United States and South Korea should tone down or halt their military drills — especially in light of the recent show of power with B-2 stealth bomber flights, which I feel was really unnecessary.
North Korea is fully aware of the strength and determination of the United States military. In this “push-button age” it only takes one little mistake or the act of a full-blown fanatic to bring global destruction. We really aren’t 100 percent sure of what other acts of lunacy a war with North Korea would trigger.
JOE SCHAERER
LAS VEGAS
No more ELLs
To the editor:
In response to your reports about the needs of schoolchildren who don’t speak English:
When children turn 3 or 4 years old, parents should be given an opportunity to enroll them in classes to teach them English. These classes would be paid for by the parents. When children show up for kindergarten, they would be required to understand and speak English, or they would be given all the information they need to enroll in the English classes.
This would stop the need for teaching English in our schools and give teachers a better shot at educating our children. It should be a requirement that not one single tax dollar be spent teaching non-English-speaking children to speak English.
NICHOLAS P. GARTNER
HENDERSON
Protect marriage
To the editor:
True marriage, that between one man and one woman, is the pre-eminent and the most fundamental of all human social institutions. It’s a relationship defined by nature and protected by the natural law that binds all men and women.
Civil institutions create neither marriage nor a right to marry for those who are incapable of marriage. Marriage was established by the Creator with its own nature, essential properties and purpose, including the procreation and upbringing of new human lives.
Sadly, marriage has been reduced to another commodity in our culture. In an age when children can be manufactured and grown in the body of a surrogate while millions are being aborted, “civil rights” are being manufactured by the agencies of the civil government. They’re multiplying while real rights, fundamental human rights, are being taken away one after another.
When sexual behavior between two men or two women is viewed as providing a foundation for a new civil right to marry, the real common good of society is placed at risk. When those who oppose this mistake are routinely characterized as bigots, overt persecution of the church is close at hand. Let’s pray that our justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will do the right thing for all Americans and uphold the traditional meaning of marriage.
SAM WRIGHT
LAS VEGAS
Value employees
To the editor:
Education in our great state of Nevada has provided the opportunity of a lifetime. The resignations of state Superintendent James Guthrie and Clark County School District Superintendent Dwight Jones have opened up the door for changes in the educational leadership style that they both displayed.
Please let our elected officials look to the successful leadership style of Zappos CEO and downtown visionary Tony Hsieh as they replace these two superintendents. Mr. Hsieh knows that a successful business is built upon a management style that values employees. I implore those involved in selecting Mr. Guthrie’s and Mr. Jones’ replacements to look to what the future of a successful employee-valued business plan will provide for our children.
It’s time to throw away the educational model currently in place that pits administrative leadership against educational employees. During my 30 years with the Clark County School District, I had the opportunity to work with principals such as Fenton Tobler, Ron Fagan and David Harcourt. These men, in their administrative roles, valued their employees. They, like Mr. Hsieh, knew that by doing so they built an environment for success.
TERRI ROBERTSON
LAS VEGAS
Rational arguments
To the editor:
Would someone please explain how politicians can tell us in one breath that we shouldn’t judge all Muslims by the actions of a few extremists or “crazies,” and then in their next breath tell us that we need to have drastic new gun control laws for all gun owners, based on the actions of a few “crazies”?
If they can explain that, I would ask why they don’t pursue new laws to control lightning, since more Americans are killed each year by lightning than in mass shootings.
We Americans need to distinguish between emotional arguments and rational arguments, and we should demand that politicians stick to rational arguments.
OWEN NELSON
LAS VEGAS
Travesty
To the editor:
Family Court Marshal Steve Rushfield appears to be juiced up in the Clark County Family Court (March 28 editorial). This wanna-be cop continually engaged in misconduct, abused his position and is still employed. That’s a travesty. He should be fired.
We’re told it’s a personnel matter. They tell us we do not have the right to know what is going on and are not privy to the results of any investigation and the circumstances surrounding any complaint.
I and every other resident, as taxpayers, pay their salaries. I say their privacy ends when I am paying their salary.
BRADLEY KUHNS
LAS VEGAS
