Speak Out 6/7/15

Bootheel mobility

It's among the lowest in the nation. The chance of someone living in the Missouri Bootheel achieving economic upward mobility from the lowest 20 percent to the highest 20 percent of the population is less than 5 percent.

ABCs and 123s

What's wrong with education? 1.) politicians, 2.) administrators, 3.) funding.

Rhetorical

Why does David Limbaugh keep trying to dictate to local schools, often hundreds or a thousand miles away, how they should run their institutions? This is a rhetorical question because he does it for (as we all know) politically ideological reasons.

History, perspective

I agree with Jack Dragoni that we need more emphasis on American history in schools. However, I part ways with him on his hint that it needs to be taught in a way so as to promote nationalism or even supra-nationalism.

Friendly skies

Do I care that the FBI airplanes are secretly circling in skies to keep us safe here from the terrorists and criminals? No. Bring it on.

Kage defense

To the person who was very disappointed that the Kage School was not remodeled back into a one-room school house, the property was empty for many years. Why didn't you restore it into a school house? What would have been the purpose? I think Mr. Hetzel did a wonderful thing to make it into something that can be used and enjoyed. I'm sure he invested a lot of time and labor and money into the building. Thank you, Mr. Hetzel. It is beautiful.

B.B. King

I'd like to totally agree with the Speak Out comment that said what a great and gracious man B.B. King was. I met Mr. King in 1970, when he came to play at Beloit College in Wisconsin. My boyfriend thought that he would welcome us -- we were just college students then -- to visit him in between sets when he was playing. I certainly didn't think so. I thought he'd probably chase us out, and we'd get in trouble for bothering him. But he told us to come right in to his dressing room. We sat on the couch there, and he told us all about his guitar, Lucille. Never been treated so well in my life. Blessings to you, Mr. King.