- November 23, 2024
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Put red light cameras on the ballot
Dear Editor:
Little by little, freedoms are being taken away from us, and we fail to act to preserve them.
One way is to put the red light cameras up for a vote of the people! Let's get it on the ballot for the 2014 election and find out just how many citizens wish to preserve our freedoms.
At the same time, we can resurrect prayer in the classrooms of America by a vote of we, the people. We, the people, have power to change laws which are unfair and unconstitutional.
Charles M. Flaherty
Palm Coast
Daytona State, be a real community partner and spare the trees
Dear Editor:
Daytona State College does have donors that should be recognized on the new student center building currently under construction. How about "To the majestic oaks that once stood here”? Too long? What about "Majestic Oaks — R.I.P.”
A bronze plaque could be placed on the building explaining to the students the decision to cut down trees that were older than us, instead of including them in the campus design. DSC could have created a campus with a sense of place, tradition and beauty using these Spanish moss-draped oaks, giving the campus the feel of a state university instead of a transient community college. Students could have enjoyed the shaded outdoors between classes, had lunch sitting under the oaks, met friends in this spot, or watched the wildlife that lived in these trees. They could have had a shady spot in which to park their bikes and walk to class in the shade of these trees.
DSC spokespersons were recently quoted in the Observer about how delighted they were to be a part of this community. Too bad they fail to realize that it is our wonderful tree canopy that distinguishes us from other areas of Florida that have already cut down their native species. Replanting the campus with ornamental species will never recreate that grand and stately presence that was there to begin with. What a loss.
Linda Hansen
Palm Coast
Dear Editor:
We've just been struck by one of the most outrageous socialist attacks to date, and the sheep continue to graze! Baaa!
Andy Dance, Janet Valentine, the Palm Coast Observer and all the rest are proudly touting Common Core. Producing “socially responsible” worker bees. And a fortune! Killing critical thinking, individual liberty and self-determination. Big government, big business, and “education” triangulating and collaborating to run the new world.
The new technology being thrust into our local schools will give our “educational institutions” the ability to literally re-write history with the click of a mouse. No more actual history books to interfere with their progressive agenda. No more learning how to write in cursive. You see, if you don't know how to write in cursive, you won't understand how to read our founding documents! No more original source material whatsoever. Remember when Michelle Obama said, “We need to change our history and traditions.” Well, here it is folks! Baaa!
Page 44 (61 on pdf scroll) of the U.S. Department of Education’s “Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance” should horrify every parent in Flagler County! On this page is shown some technology they don’t want to talk about in public: facial expression cameras; wireless skin conductance sensors, worn on the wrist; pressure-sensitive mouse on computers; posture analysis seats; fMRI monitoring of students; video surveillance of all students at all times; retinal scans, etc.
Not to mention the fact they will now know everything about students and their families. Fingerprints. Pick-up and drop-off locations and times. And, of course, what political and religious affiliations each family has.
Given the fact that most parents of current high school students in Flagler County are products of the advent of this brainwashing, they haven't even batted an eye at the bar-coded I.D. badges currently being worn by their young sheep.
It is no wonder they're clueless. Baaa!
Timothy Hall
Palm Coast
Editor’s Note: The Palm Coast Observer has no stance on Common Core. We did publish School Board member Andy Dance’s letter, which, in the process of welcoming students back to school, says the schools’ technology upgrades help “meet the computer testing requirements established by the new Common Core State Standards.”
