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State’s inmate schooling
program altering lives
Re: “School expanded for younger inmates” (Web page B1, April 20).
I'm delighted to listen to that California continues to offer rehabilitative providers for youth within the juvenile justice system. Incarcerated youth have the potential to make adjustments to their lives upon launch that may encourage a optimistic and wholesome life-style if they're supplied with the appropriate instruments.
As we now have all been informed, schooling will not be solely the easiest way to higher ourselves but it surely additionally opens our eyes and thoughts to a special world and to completely different alternatives. Loads of the time, these youth assume that these desires are unattainable to them, however by way of this system Mission Change, they're being proven in any other case.
Having this program run by individuals who have been within the juvenile justice system themselves makes it extra beneficial. They've lived firsthand what it's like and know what adjustments should be made.
Fabiola Aguirre
San Jose
Steadiness between STEM,
arts is essential in schooling
Re: “Theater ‘one thing that’s lacking’ in STEM-focused college” (Web page B9, April 30).
STEM courses present job preparation, however they don't put together college students to grasp different people, be taught to understand and worth cultural variations, or the way to communicate in a convention. Arts encourage focus, focus and creativeness. Dance teaches the way to stroll and never fidget at an interview. Research present repeatedly that classical music helps considering.
College students who're within the arts ought to have courses out there. College students who should not within the arts additionally ought to have courses within the arts. College students who don't favor STEM programs additionally want them. Steadiness advantages people significantly. Arts educate the way to assume, to learn with out being swayed by propaganda, and to search out worth in humanity.
Leslie Friedman
Mountain View
Nature guidelines make
little sense for animals
When do you cease defending nature to save lots of nature?
On a current stroll at Sundown State Seaside in south Santa Cruz County, I got here throughout an injured sea lion pup. I known as the Marine Mammal Heart, which is a superb group that routinely rescues these animals and has completed so a number of instances on this space.
Nevertheless, attributable to a current change in regulation, the California State Parks company now prohibits rescues from a few of their seashores together with Sundown which might be declared delicate habitats attributable to nesting websites for birds just like the snowy plover, a “species of particular concern.”
Whereas I've no points with defending the birds, the ocean lion was distant from the nesting website on the seashore the place the rangers drive by a number of instances each day. That isn’t any completely different than a mammal rescue truck coming by as soon as to select up an injured animal.
Tom Herrmann
Morgan Hill
State should abolish
all baby marriage
I'm writing to specific my concern about Part 302 of the Household Legislation Code, which permits for baby marriage underneath sure circumstances. Whereas the intention of this legislation might have been to guard the pursuits of minors, it has as an alternative led to numerous situations of compelled marriage and exploitation.
Youngster marriage is a violation of primary human rights and has extreme bodily and psychological penalties, together with an elevated threat of home violence and poverty. Permitting kids to be legally married sends the message that their rights and well-being should not valued.
We should take a stand towards baby marriage and repeal Part 302 of the Household Legislation Code. As an alternative, we should always deal with implementing insurance policies that prioritize the security and well-being of minors, comparable to rising entry to schooling and assets that empower them to make knowledgeable selections about their lives.
Hannah Mukhtar
San Jose
We should vote our
method to gun management
Could 6: the coronation of King Charles. 1000's within the streets of London. Nobody shot. Could 6: Texas. Eight shot and killed at a shopping center. The 201st mass taking pictures in the USA this yr. How offended are you on the proliferation of gun violence on this county?
A younger man was shot for ringing the improper doorbell. A lady shot and killed for driving down the improper driveway. A cheerleader shot after entering into the improper automotive. Infants shot driving within the household automotive. Youngsters shot whereas attending college the place they need to be protected.
And once more, there are these (assume the gun foyer) who reply by stating the occasions shouldn't be politized. Sure, they need to. The GOP’s reply to this violence — arm academics. Extra armed guards on campuses. Eliminating gun management legal guidelines. Extra weapons. Can we discover a resolution? Sadly, no, however we will strive. Vote.
Caroline Rackowski
Morgan Hill
Transgender bullying
distracts from issues
As an alternative of the headline “Battle over transgender rights simmers throughout the USA” (Web page A5, April 29), a extra correct title could be “Bullying of transgender people continues.”
Choose the three most pressing issues among the many following: local weather change; homelessness; gun security; voting rights; immigration legal guidelines; revenue disparity; judicial impropriety; equal entry to high quality well being care and schooling; and which toilet, sports activities crew and medical remedy is permitted for a transgender particular person. Bullying transgender individuals is a distraction from actual issues that legislators are failing to deal with.
Take into account the way you may really feel in case your physique didn't match your sense of self. I think about I might really feel frightened, sad and confused. Discriminatory legal guidelines and practices would solely add to my anxiousness. Acknowledge the bullying and its objective and simply say no.
Harriet Wolf
San Jose