- November 23, 2024
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+ Thanks to everyone in Palm Coast for supporting Boy Scouts
Dear Editor:
I am James Day, from Boy Scouts Troop 281. Our community has done a lot to help scouting. I would like to thank WNZF and The Beach, my favorite radio station, for helping us make our public service announcements. I would like to thank the First Baptist Church for giving us a location to meet, and all of their other help. I would like to thank Princess Place for letting us have our Webelos Woods and training for the adults. I would like to thank the Palm Coast Observer, Florida’s best paper, for all of the stories about the Boy Scouts and projects. Thanks, Palm Coast, for helping your Boy Scouts do our good deed every day.
James Day III
Palm Coast
Editor’s Note: Aww, shucks. Thanks, James. Keep up the good work!
+ All government employees should live where they are hired
Dear Editor:
I believe if you are employed, under contract or not, with any federal, state or city government agency, you should live within the area of your employment.
There are 125 out-of-county government jobs in Flagler County and Palm Coast. I am sure we could find qualified, unemployed Palm Coast and Flagler County residents to fill these jobs.
Walter Albano
Palm Coast
TWO FOR UNIFORMS
+ Teachers dress like bums and show too much cleavage
Dear Editor:
I was reading your piece regarding the school uniforms recently. Then I got to the part about tattoos. I don’t know of any children who have any, but I wonder if anyone has ever stepped in a school on a Friday?
Friday, I guess, is casual, though a lot of teachers dress like bums on a daily.
If you have ever been to a school on this day, you will see that from the front desk ladies to the teachers, many of them sport tattoos. Some of them are quite large, and I am wondering how they will cover them up. I mean, some are on wrists and the backs of necks.
I think I would find this to be a problem. If our teachers are to be part of our children’s lives and set examples, well, I find this rule a little hard to push.
I think they need to tighten the policies to include the teachers also.
If everyone has to wear appropriate clothing don’t you think the teachers should also?
Oh, yeah, and teachers show more cleavage then a strip club. I would think all this would have to be addressed before we can ask our children to follow these guidelines.
Jessica Barrett
Palm Coast
+ Parents let their kids get away with nasty clothes
Dear Editor:
I applaud the School Board for taking control and implementing a school uniforms policy. Parents allow their kids to attend school half-dressed and inappropriately dressed. I am so tired of looking at our youth in pants that fall below their buttocks, cleavage, nasty T-shirts and gang-related attire. It is time they learn that to live in a civilized society requires one to look civilized.
Our youth are in school to be educated, not to look cool (though that concept is in the eye of the beholder). Perhaps if parents exercised their parental authority over the dress of their children, this would not have been necessary.
As for those who are complaining about the cost: Who purchased the crap they are wearing now? Instead of buying inappropriate attire, purchase the required polo shirts and pants. I would guess these can be purchased inexpensively.
Eva Marie Chavis
Palm Coast
