Terrible Redistricting of 2002 Still Producing Effect
Terrible Redistricting of 2002 Still Producing Effect
Editor,
The State Senate District 34 vote lead has been going back and forth. As of 11am Nov. 17, Democrat Lou Correa had regained the lead over Republican Lynn Daucher. The 272-vote difference is a small fraction of the more than 105,000 votes counted.
If the current difference holds up, not one California Senate or Assembly seat will have changed party affiliation since the shameful redistricting in 2002. That is zero in 240 races.
Gerrymandering works.
Marvin L. Jones
Hollister
Ways to Make the Insanity
of Education Work
Editor,
We spend a lot of money to improve education. But education does not improve. why? Because we are running education the same old way – one adult to one classroom.
Albert Einstein said that insanity is the result of doing the same thing the same way and expecting different results. To improve education, we need to change the way we educate.
To improve education at every level, we need a teacher and an aide in every classroom. Then, when the teacher teaches, the aide can make sure that every child pays attention, help children who are having trouble learning the lesson, and help reduce time lost in discipline matters.
How do we pay for the aides? Simple. Our educational system is routing too many of our children into gangs, juvenile hall and prison. An aide in every classroom would decrease the number of children going in those negative situations. Money not spent on controlling gangs, processing kids in juvenile hall, and maintaining prisons, could be better spent on aides.
Paul Shanley
Hollister
