MAILBAG - Oct. 11, 2007

School board should support private schools

Celia Jaffe, Catherine McGough and Rosemary Saylor of the Huntington Beach School Board are willing to destroy Huntington Christian School, its campus, families, students for the sake of what?

What can possibly justify evicting an outstanding educational facility from the property it has occupied for so many years to the benefit of the entire community? There is no good reason beyond greed for doing so.

Perhaps ambition.

Any taxpayer citizen knows that Huntington Christian School saves the taxpayer millions by educating students, who otherwise would cost the taxpayers to support. Millions are saved for taxpayers by the two Christian schools, which the board seeks to evict.

Shouldn’t the board have loyalty to these other schools which are helping the school district in the worthy goal of educating the community’s children?

Yes it should!

The board members above should reconsider their votes to evict and instead vote to sustain, promote and support Huntington Christian School.

This is a situation which requires close scrutiny as to why the board is willing to betray fellow educators by evicting outstanding schools. It’s a disgraceful thing to do to the entire community. It’s divisive. Unfair. Discriminatory — as both facilities are Christian schools.

Let’s see some investigative reporting on what’s going on in the “closed” sessions in which the school board voted to banish functioning, excellent schools.

Citizens For Saving Huntington Christian School

Huntington Beach

Plant would make H.B. laughingstock of region

Sometimes, you just don’t know where to begin in responding to a letter like the one from Lucinda Halley (“Poseidon plant will put Huntington Beach into forefront,” Oct. 4).

Far from making Huntington Beach the “kingmaker” in regional water policy, the Poseidon desalination plant would actually make us the laughingstock of the region for approving this obvious white elephant of a project. And “water tariffs” making our city wealthy?

Give me a break!

Southeast Huntington Beach residents and opponents of the Poseidon desal plant will only “console” ourselves when this project is defeated and the threats to our coastline and our community posed by it are removed once and for all.

If Halley is truly concerned about Southern California water resources, she should press for more conservation, more reclamation, better planning and, oh yes, more responsible desalination strategies than Poseidon is proposing.

TIM GEDDES

Huntington Beach

President Bush leaves constitutional crisis

Thank you for publishing my letter (“Bush impeachment would be good for all Americans,” Sept. 27).

Unfortunately, there was a word inserted into the text of my letter that is a significant change and creates a misconception. I am referring to the sentence “These alleged abuses of power affect every citizen including Huntington Beach and will remain in place until January 2009 unless we stand up now.”

That statement is incorrect because the dangerous legal precedents established by the Bush Administration will remain in place when the next administration takes over in January 2009 — Republican or Democrat.

Yes, Bush is leaving, but he’s leaving a constitutional crisis in his wake.

LYNDA HERNANDEZ

Huntington Beach