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Junior high schoolers need parents' support

2-21-01

Dear Lincolnites:

Something is troubling me, and I hope you can help. I had been watching part of a girls volleyball game at the junior high (while working), and I noticed there were not very many parents — or teachers, for that matter — there. It seemed very odd to me that the visiting team had more support — still not much. [I was] informed by a concerned teacher (who will remain nameless) that it has been that way all season. How are the children to learn encouragement if their own parents don't support them? They need that support! I also believe that more teachers should be there — not just at the volleyball games, but at all sporting and educational events. I know that it is impossible to attend every event, but we need to try.

Parents and teachers need to work together to encourage our children to be successful. Being successful does not always mean being a straight-A student, but it does mean that they do the best they possibly can. So, as parents we need to be involved with our children's education. If there is something you don't understand, get help, just like we tell our children.

We need to give our children more of our time. We should never be too busy. We weren't too busy when we conceived them, so why stop now? I believe that if we show support to them now while they are young, they will take a more caring attitude in all aspects of life.

There are some good words in Proverbs, and they are: Train a child in the way he/she should go and when they get older they will not stray for from it.

I urge you now as parents to start showing your love to your children from this day forward. Support them in all that they do that is right and good. Discipline them when they do wrong. You as parents should also be a good influence on your children, and when you are, we will all have a better world.

Signed,

A concerned parent

Larry McMullen

Lincoln


Thank you, Jean Ann

2-17-01

To the editor:

I would like to thank Jean Ann Carnley for taking the time to come to my classroom and for the wonderful article published in the Lincoln Daily News, complete with photographs of the egg drop contest.

Also, thanks for sending me copies of the photos. I will print them and put them up with others I have on the photo wall of fame for the class of 2001.

My students and I have enjoyed reading and seeing the results of the contest in your news.

Thanks,

Betty Harberts


 

 

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Letters to the Editor
Lincoln Daily News
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Lincoln, IL  62656

Letters must include the writer's name, telephone number, mailing address and/or e-mail address (we will not publish address or phone number information). Lincoln Daily News reserves the right to edit letters to reduce their size or to correct obvious errors. Lincoln Daily News reserves the right to reject any letter for any reason. Lincoln Daily News will publish as many acceptable letters as space allows. 



 

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