San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
Chance at redemption
Everyone is assuming that it will be some Democrat against President Trump in the next presidential election, but I’m hoping Sen. Mitt Romney will step up to the plate and challenge him. This will offer the Trump-supporting Republicans in this country some opportunity for redemption. falsified test scores are debating whether to expel those students and rescind any credits purportedly earned. Don’t these administrators know that these students may be gaining grades in their schools by paying other students to write original papers for them, to do projects for them or take tests for them? In fact, part of their admissions fraud may have been grades gotten by these same means.
Dolores Mizis, Tiburon
Insulated from tweets
Regarding “Levi’s went public last week. Here are five things to know about the company” (Business, March 24): So the walls of Levi’s waterfront headquarters on Battery Street are insulated with denim jeans?
Well if this iconic blue jeans manufacturer could figure out a way to insulate the American public from a certain Oval Office occupant’s toxic tweets, I would happily buy a considerable amount of shares of its stock.
Reform the process
Regarding the college admissions scandal: California legislators advocating the revocation of degrees, please reconsider your stance on expulsion and revoking degrees until these students, and their parents, are convicted or exonerated. Real reform can take place if the great state of California boldly and radically changes the admissions process to limit parent participation and support student independence. Neither my husband nor I had anything to do with either of our children’s college admissions.
They applied, wrote essays we never saw, and signed up for their SATs themselves. If a student is ready for college, they should be capable of applying for college themselves. California can’t control the admissions process of out-of-state universities, but we could set an example by reforming the process in our state. Enable students, the children of the future will thank us.
Mary Baker-Hendy, San Francisco
Disrespected democracy
Regarding “How gun rights absolutists defy law” (Insight, March 24) and “Why death penalty has value for reforming prison system” (Insight, March 24): Two articles in Sunday’s edition illustrate a disrespect for the democratic process. One regarding local sheriffs’ disregard for enforcing new gun restrictions, the other in reference to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s moratorium on the death penalty. The role of our elected and/or appointed representatives is to support and enforce the will of the people. To disrespect matters that are the dictates of the electorate is frightening with regard to its similarity to nondemocratic forms of governance.
More time to sleep
Why not change to year-round daylight-saving time while shifting school start times to one hour later for the entire year, thus giving sleep-deprived kids an extra hour of sleep?