July 14, 2024
Appealing to Our Higher Angels
I shake my head in bemusement at how upsetting the reality of sexual diversity can be to many people. By contrast, I think of the joyous sense of freedom at the Pride event at the downtown park last Sunday. Persecution was briefly set aside.
Nature/God/evolution produces variety in people as well as plants and animals. Evolution also seems to produce in animals including mankind an innate fear and distrust of “other” as a survival mechanism. This can still serve us well or ill.
All kinds of misinformation can be produced about the feared unknown.
When the “different” person appears among us, let us appeal to our higher selves to help us to truly learn what traits to tolerate, fear, ignore, or welcome.
Karen Kallay
Fredericksburg
School Board Must Fix Institutional Issues
The interview with Megan Jackson and Belen Rodas served, and serves, the public well. Two issues I am following quite closely are institutional, not individual-specific: (i) the institutional commitment to ensuring full FOIA compliance by all members, regardless of politics and based solely on whether the requests are lawful; and (ii) the institutional recognition of responsibility for misconduct, regardless of what individual board member or members is or are at technical fault for the misconduct.
If there are no institutional improvements in those areas, the Board is failing to meet its core obligations as a good neighbor and good corporate citizen, putting aside the more intricate questions about serving our school children vis a vis these institutional failings.
Theodore C. Marcus
Spotsylvania
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