Kathy Whicker
Regarding the editorial “Whicker’s exit only helps her foes” (July 14):
It’s a sad day when members of the Greenwood School Board become the very bullies they seek to prevent within the schools they govern. It is clear that board members Bill Clay and George Ellis have let power go to their heads, leading them to bully those who are not on their “team” and betray the families of the Greenwood School District.
Kathy Whicker’s exit is a defeat for transparency, because she was the only board member who would ask the tough questions. However, one can hardly blame her for resigning, knowing the treatment she received from the administration and her fellow board members. No one deserves to be deceived, ignored and treated as poorly as she was by her colleagues.
At this point, the best course for the Greenwood School District is a state takeover and consolidation with the Leflore County School District. Perhaps the leaders of the combined school district would be able to reduce administrative bloat, right-size the number of schools in the district, and get to the important business of educating the children of Greenwood and Leflore County.
Kudzu King
Confederate holiday
Regarding the article “County kills Confederate holiday” (July 7):
I can see we have liars, instigators, cowards, idiots, narcissistic dictators, whiners and do-boys in our county government. Did I leave out anything?
First you don’t have a stance one way or another, then you have a firm stance. First it doesn’t matter, then it does. First you vote one way, then you come back and vote another. And then you come back again and vote another way.
I don’t think the Leflore County Board of Supervisors has the authority to stop people of the Confederacy from celebrating their memorial day. But they do have the authority to stop it from being a county holiday, where our tax dollars are paid out to employees to take the day off. Most of them don’t even know what the holiday is all about anyway. To them it’s just another day off with pay.
So, go ahead and celebrate your heritage of enslavement, oppression and slaughter. Just don’t do it with my tax dollars.
Get a Clue
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The problem: Confederate flag and holidays. The solution: Make everything generic; forget history.
Move Robert E. Lee, Martin Luther King and all the other sensitive holidays to Veterans Day and celebrate all heroes from the American Revolution to today’s veterans on one day.
If the state flag gets changed, so do all the MLK Boulevards and Emmett Till highway markers, etc., because we don’t want to offend anyone about anything.
skywalker
