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Learning is the foundation
The Fort Worth ISD’s student-achievement issues have been much in the news lately. We cannot have a successful community without a well-educated populace. But most of us feel helpless in terms of how we can individually help our students do better.
The Fort Worth ISD works with Reading Partners North Texas to provide reading tutoring assistance to our most needful students.
Most of us do not feel qualified to be a reading guide, but Reading Partners will provide all you need to be a successful reading tutor. Spending one hour a week with a student can change that student’s life and chances for a productive future. You will also be individually addressing Fort Worth’s most urgent need.
Please take a few minutes to investigate Reading Partners North Texas.
- Norman Robbins, Former Fort Worth ISD trustee, Fort Worth
Rely on your own eyes and ears
Voters, please don’t believe politicians’ advertising. Do your homework. Our children are worth it. Their future depends on you not believing all you see on TV or hear from friends and acquaintances.
Remember the old saying that the last thing we do is read the directions. Today, we need to look at the truth first and not when we find out we listened to the wrong folks.
Listen to all facts and opinions. Then, make your own decisions at the polls.
- Frankie Andrew, Willow Park
Bishop Jack Iker didn’t back down
Former Fort Worth Episcopal Bishop Jack Iker, who recently died, was often vilified for his controversial positions on women’s ordination and gay clergy.
Whether you agree with his stance on those issues, he was willing to take an unpopular stand based on conviction regardless of the consequences.
Too bad we have so few men and women in theology and politics who are willing to do the same rather than sacrificing principle for the sake of advancement or popularity.
- Thomas F. Harkins Jr., Fort Worth
No one can do everything alone
It takes a team to run a government administration. While one person is the figurehead, teamwork makes it work. Kamala Harris has plenty of experience working with teams and knows how to respect people. Think of Ronald Reagan and George Shultz, Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright, Joe Biden and Antony Blinken, all examples of great teams of qualified, experienced people.
Donald Trump is not a team player. He thinks he knows better than everyone else and can run the show by himself. He picks people who do his bidding. Harris would appoint a great team of experts in every position, not just people unquestionably loyal to her. Look at all Biden has accomplished versus all the former president promised and failed to deliver.
We need a competent government. Vote for Harris and Tim Walz.
- Robert Bunata, Fort Worth
You know what you get in Trump
One of the candidates for president presents a lot of uncertainty. The other has a past performance we can rely on.
Kamala Harris has flip-flopped on a ban on fracking, supports killing the Senate filibuster, wants to fast-track all-electric cars, supports remaking the Supreme Court and calls for more taxes on high-income individuals and corporations.
She has switched and changed course on many of these positions. Is it just a political stunt to gain voters? The big question to me is: Why haven’t they done these things over recent years?
Just look at your grocery, gasoline and utility costs in the last three years. Donald Trump has a record that he has not wavered from. He has a record of being consistent.
- Ben Loughry, Fort Worth