Letters: South Bend district students are shining onstage and on the field

Letters to the Editor
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The exterior of the South Bend Community School Corporation Administration building Wednesday, March 23, 2022 in downtown South Bend.

During the month of May, the public has several opportunities to see South Bend Community School Corp. students shine in performances, concerts, exhibitions, athletics and awards ceremonies. I hope you will make time to see the fresh faces of elementary children, the energy of middle school students and the talent of our high schoolers. Most of all, you will see strength, resilience and joy. Don't miss out!

Ruth Warren

South Bend


Be more specific

Rep. Jackie Walorski states in her recent newsletter to constituents: "This week’s leak once again proves that the radical left will stoop to unprecedented lows to extinguish the right to life."

I think officials in Washington would be very interested in Jackie being more specific and providing the name(s) of the leaker … if she knows.

Dave Musser

South Bend

Demise of tolerance

This is not the country I grew up respecting, and I mourn the demise of decency and tolerance.

• Book banning, voter suppression laws (with "election police" in Florida) are supposedly to "protect integrity of elections." In reference to voter fraud, did you know that Mark Meadows was registered to vote in three states in 2020?

• Discrimination against transgender kids and LGBTQ persons — issues that should be left to individuals and their medical professionals, not politicians.

• Abortion bans without exceptions for rape and incest — this one is truly draconian. If men who love these laws had to have babies, abortion would not only be legal but prolific. And this says nothing about tattletale vigilante laws: Turn in your neighbors, doctors — anyone who may aid a woman, however unwittingly — just to try and make a buck (Texas).

• The press has been called "the enemy of the people," among other things.

• Xenophobia, racial discrimination, antisemitism; hate crimes are more prevalent than they've been in a decade.

Anyone who votes party over country, beware. One party seeks to set back the clock and calendar 50 years, especially where women's rights are concerned.

So let's hope enough people realize it before we fully go down that path.

Christine McCollum

South Bend

This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Students in South Bend schools shine onstage, on the field