May 27, 2013 11:28AM
The Chicago Board of Education recently voted to close 50 schools. | File photo
Some failing schools have high absentee rates. You can’t teach kids who don’t show up. The problem with failing schools is kids not trying. It’s not the teachers’ fault and it’s not the school building.
In the light of the massive devastation from the Oklahoma tornado disaster, you don’t know from day to day when your life will end so live life to its fullest and practice love.
BJ from Hazel Crest
How can anyone be against expanding background checks for gun purchases? Well, let’s see. We can enact new laws and then tell the people in charge of processing the background checks to delay them or put a few people in place to process a million requests. That would never happen in the United States, would it?
James S. from Crete
I was driving down the street and I saw three landscaping trailers. I got to wondering if the kids have become so lazy that they don’t even cut the grass anymore. I wouldn’t even suggest using one of those reel-type mowers of my past. That would be asking too much these days.
The Link card police are ineligible for the card because we work. Most of us don’t make a living off of having more babies for bigger checks. We get punished for making an honest living.
Now, more than ever, teens and children are raping and sexually molesting other kids. I wonder what the promoters of graphic sex in the media and porn think. How about the lazy parents who drag their new sex partners through their kids lives or have open porn in their homes? What do they think? Not much I’m sure because they never put their kids’ welfare first. What a sad, disgusting statement on our society!
I know the president has nothing to do with gasoline prices, but isn’t it amazing how gas prices seem to drop during an election year?
While walking the annual Oak Park Avenue benches, I noticed the banners on the posts that say “Experience Tinley.” Overgrown grass and weeds, empty storefronts and boarded windows, trash piled on the side of a business, crumbling parking lots and more than a few dead trees. I don’t think that was the experience they had in mind.
Tinley Park
This is to folks who think they are being clever. They say that knives were used in some attacks so knives should be banned, or that the Boston bombers used remote controls from toys so those should be banned, or we should ban cars because they can kill. They are forgetting an important distinction. All of these aforementioned items’ main function has nothing to do with killing. The only thing a gun is meant to do is kill.
Chicago
Kevin from Midlothian says I contend that there isn’t any evidence of God answering prayers. He asks, “What evidence is there that God hasn’t answered any prayers?” He could just as well ask what evidence there is that Zeus or Apollo hasn’t answered any prayers. When someone claims something exists, the burden of proof is on the person making the claim. If a person claims that the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot exists, it is up to that person to show others that his claim is true. If he cannot, no one should be expected to believe what he says.
Jeff from Orland Hills
As the saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. This is just like pushing an elevator button that has already been pushed being a waste of time. So is voting to repeal Obamacare 37 times. I think Republicans have wasted millions of taxpayer dollars repeating the vote 36 times. How about this, Republicans? Repeal the sequestration and fully fund Head Start, cancer research and Meals on Wheels.
Why is it OK for a person to leash their dog and walk him out of their yard across the street to do his business on my grass and then they are offended when I ask them to not walk their dog on my grass? I want my grass to look as good as everyone else. Is this a new thing that is socially accepted? When you take your dog for a walk you can let him do his business in your yard. Then you can continue the walk for exercise.
Tom from Frankfort
Prior Grand Knight Hank Montoya, of the Knights of Columbus Council 14553 in Oak Lawn, recently visited the San Patricio Council 14992 in Cancun, Mexico. While on vacation there, Montoya exchanged ideas and resources. He presented a check valued at 1,260 pesos on behalf of Council 14553. The San Patricio Council was grateful for the donation, which was given to a local orphanage.
M.J.C.
We are supposed to have the most transparent administration in the history of the United States, according to President Obama, yet this scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups has been going on for three years. Why wasn’t this reported a year ago? You don’t think they were holding back instead of reporting this years ago? Oh, no, not President Obama. He wouldn’t do something like that.
While I agree with the ban of magazines that can hold up to 30 bullets, I should let you know that I can change a clip in three seconds and my little brother can change a clip in two seconds. So I don’t see what a difference that would make.
If Gov. Pat Quinn gives in to Chicago or Cook County regarding casinos then that would be like giving an arsonist a flamethrower.
Bob from Oak Forest
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