Biden is bad for charter schools

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Fort Lee: The National Education Association is a giant teachers union. Its major goal is to benefit the teachers in terms of salaries and pensions. The NEA endorsed Joe Biden, which bodes ill for school choice. “No privately funded charter school or private charter school would receive a penny of federal money — none,” he told the NEA.

This is horrible news for the tens of thousands of families now on waiting lists to have their children enrolled in a charter school. Parents of school children living in poverty have had their children’s lifeline cut to a good education and a way out of poverty. While the move secures enormous funding from the NEA for the upcoming Biden presidential campaign, it ignores the remarkable success record of those schools. My hope is that this issue is recognized by parents living in failing school districts and switch their voting to President Trump who strongly favors school choice, vouchers and charter schools. Arthur Horn

Free The News

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Lemuel Colon

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Desperate times

Malverne, L.I.: So now with everyone grabbing food in supermarkets and stores low on supplies, I guess we will be having people breaking into homes to steal food!

Laura Colella

New normal

Brooklyn: Now that the bars and restaurants are closed, gyms, libraries and movie theaters shuttered, sporting events canceled and travel curtailed, my greatest fear is that once the coronavirus has subsided, what if we get used to it? Lydia DiBello

Fellow prepper

Brooklyn: This man Voicer Robert McKenna, who wrote in about being prepared for worst-case scenarios, knows his stuff. A big “true that.”

Louis Scarcella

Speed trap

Brooklyn: Hey, Mayor de Blasio, how about turning off the speed cameras now that schools are closed?

Andrew Feinstein

Come together

Valley Stream, L.I.: Coronovirus doesn’t care if you are white or black, Asian, Spanish, Italian, Danish, English, French, African, Arab, Israeli, man or woman, young or old, straight, gay, bisexual, Republican or Democrat, pro-Trump or anti-Trump, a believer in global warming or a nonbeliever, pro-gun or anti-gun, pro-life or pro-choice, rich or poor, fat or skinny, an alcoholic or a teetotaler, Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Lutheran, Buddhist, Hindu, a northerner or a southerner, a New Yorker or a Californian, caring or selfish, smart or stupid, athletic or debilitated, ambitious or lazy, healthy or sick, blueeyed or brown-eyed, blond or brunette, an optimist or a pessimist, employed or unemployed, a president or a peon. It doesn’t discriminate. We shouldn’t either. Let’s use this dreaded disease to unify.

Valerie Gomez

Donor management

Miller Place, L.I.: Thanks, former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, for donating millions of dollars to battle coronavirus. Talk about a generous individual! What about America’s overpaid professional sports stars? Can’t they pitch in?

Thomas Patrick Folan

Lock down

Manhattan: The government taking away pieces of our lives every other day is psychological torture and is making this whole thing drag on much longer than it needs to. Why don’t they just cut right to it and issue a mandatory quarantine for all citizens until designated medical officials can go around to every home until every last human being in the state is tested? I know that may seem drastic to a lot of people but no one can deny that all of this would be over much faster in the long run if they did it that way. Lois Pine

Special treatment

Rockaway Park: The news media reported that four Brooklyn Nets players tested positive for COVID-19 (“Kevin Durant and three other Nets players test positive for coronavirus,” March 17). The report said three had no symptoms. As a healthcare professional, I would like to know how these young, and presumably healthy, people got tested in the first place. The federal CDC and state and city departments of health have recommended that only asymptomatic high-risk and sick high-risk people should be tested, and the testing must be ordered by a healthcare professional. These individuals are obviously not in the high-risk category. Had they been my patients and contacted me, I would have advised them to stay home. I certainly would not have recommended testing. Did they circumvent the system, or were they treated as VIPs who are more important than the rest of us? Peter Galvin

Cheers!

Brooklyn: For half a century, I celebrated St. Patrick’s Day the night before. No crowds, fresh corned beef. This year I was home by 8:15. You can’t live it up anymore!

John O’Hara

Positivity

Staten Island: We will rise up as a nation, as a world, as a human race to fight this virus and move forward with hope for hope is all we have. We will look back on these days and remember we are resilient beings. God speed!

Christopher F. Scandaglia

Refund request

Saranac Lake, N.Y.: Is it possible for your sports reporters to find out what’s going on with tickets already sold for games that have been “postponed” due to the coronavirus? I bought tickets to both Yankees and the Mets for April. As I live in

AP upstate New York, getting to a ball game is not as easy as jumping on a subway. With my job and my schedule, it is impossible for me to go to another game at another time whenever MLB does start the season. This was it. And yet the MLB refuses to refund monies. It is unfair and selfish on their part to think that fans will be able to adjust their schedules once baseball gets underway — whenever that is. We are in unchartered territory with this pandemic and the MLB should recognize this and refund people’s money.

Nancy Moriarty

Wash your hands!

Hartsdale, N.Y.: One of the main contributors to the spread of COVID-19 and every other easily transmittable disease is a lack of basic human cleanliness — and the biggest is the lack of people washing their hands. I have seen over the last 20 years a considerable dropoff of men washing their hands after using restrooms in restaurants, movie theaters and every other public location. It’s a disgusting social habit, but maybe — just maybe — this contagion will teach people to go back to the way we oldsters were taught. Hey, we even washed our hands before we ate meals. Why not go back to that? Norman Gaines