School office decision isn’t that complicated
I’m having a difficult time understanding the reasoning of the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education concerning the locating of central offices.
It has been stated by consulting firms that the Old Concord Road location offfers the least expensive and most advantageous location. We, the county, have 24-plus acres there with the space for a new building, plenty of parking space, and a chance to put all school-related offices in one centralized location. Isn’t this the goal of the board?
We should not play politics with this issue! Centralization for efficiency is important ó everything relating to schools in one place and a new building at less cost!
Come on, people, wake up and let our leaders know we are tired of the senseless politics of something not so complicated. Use some common sense! We have studied this issue to death. Let’s have some positive action and hold them accountable for the vote they take.
ó Winfred C. Shuping
Salisbury
Drugs and imprisonment
Regarding Kathleen Parker’s Feb. 16 column “Drug laws are making society less safe”:
Why are so many people in jail in the United States? Because many drugs and alcohol are legalized but purchasers and/or users are punished for the consequences: i.e., impairment.
To manufacture the above-mentioned substances and legalize the purchase of such mind-altering items ó and then punish or penalize the results is comparable or the same as Russian roulette!
Prisons are overrun because the legal system advocates imprisonment (instead of rehab) for any and every minor infraction (minor infraction: no life lost, no wreck, no property damage, no rape, no theft and so on). Somebody is making a profit off these prisons! Who?
And why not put prohibition on the table, including alcohol? No drugs or alcohol, no problems, no jail overcrowding, no need for all these lawyers and judges and cops, etc. Get the picture?
ó Lee Kennedy
Mocksville