Letters to the editor 4-1

Enrollment is down;

one school should close

Fremont Elementary School needs to change over to the same schedule as the rest of the schools in Carson City.

How can this school not be "different" and interpreted as "elite" when it has a unique schedule? All students are guaranteed an education, but not a "unique" schedule or a classroom with less than the maximum number of students in it.

Carson City provides, with considerable tax dollars, a traditional school year schedule for every student except those at Fremont.

Also, enrollment in the Carson City school system is down by 1,000 students. Close at least one school.

KATHE GREEN

Carson City

If no significant savings,

leave Fremont alone

Of course the Carson City School Board isn't doing the right thing with trying to change Fremont's schedule, and neither is Superintendent Richard Stokes.

Anyone who has lived in Carson for a while knows that there has been an agenda passed on through the ranks to take away any difference in schools, especially Fremont. The attacks are so blatant when you hear them talk. They admittedly discuss this outside of the board room.

Do they all visit the sites and see the wonderful things each school is doing? Not all reading programs are the same; what I put in my shopping cart for my family may not match someone else's. The point is, in a community there should be something for everyone. Fremont has never put themselves out there as the only right choice, just the choice they prefer. If there is no significant savings to be made, let it go.

K. WEXLER

Carson City

Time change an annual

traumatic challenge

Time change! All Nevada clocks recently jumped forward one hour. Again. Why do we do this? Arizona doesn't. We're in the same time zone. So why?

Do the cattle and sheep know what time it really is? How about the roosters? Do they know to crow an hour earlier?

The Diagnostic Criteria for Psychological Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association lists PSTD for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. How about a new category for sleep disturbances? You know, like "Post Traumatic Time Change Disorder." What can one do about it?

Be patient. A while back my car clock broke. So for half of the year the time was correct. All I had to do is wait another six months for it get right again.

Listening to a luncheon conversation, I heard all sorts of complaints and comments. One said, "What is the real time anyway?" Another replied, "Hey I don't know."

"Maybe we could write letters."

"So just who would you write to?"

"Try Obama. He's into change."

BARBARA GRIFFITHS

Gardnerville