Letters, 1/4: Plenty of creativity at Culler
Thank you for the article on Culler Middle School (LJS, Dec. 31). I attended Culler, and so did my daughter.
Culler is a school of great tradition and rich diversity. Students at Culler are exposed to many different cultures, values and beliefs.
Students at Culler are allowed to be themselves and not fit into any particular mold. Being unique is encouraged, not ridiculed.
Kids are judged by their individual talents and abilities and not by their last name, where they live, the color of their skin, their wardrobe or what their parent(s) do for a living. Anyone can achieve if they put forth the effort.
A few years back, I had the chance to help coach creative problem-solving at Culler. The kids on the team were so energetic and creative that we took first place at state.
Far too often the accomplishments of a school are never noticed. Thank you for the spotlight.
Lynn Ayers, Lincoln
Climate change scientists
Cal Thomas’ Dec. 29 criticism of the “global warming cult” is a regrettable contribution to the enormous literature of misinformation on climate change.
First, the report on which the piece is based aims to debunk the scientific consensus on the reality of human-caused global warming. It does nothing of the sort.
Titled “Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007,” the document consists largely of quotes from scientists and other academics critical of the global warming theory. It appears to have been compiled primarily by searching the Internet.
The climate credentials of many of the people cited in the report are unclear at best: Perhaps this is why they have been forced to voice their views in blogs and other forums of limited scientific merit.
Instead of surveying peer-reviewed literature, a reasonable way to determine the state of the art in a scientific field, the committee’s staffers chose to analyze the content of a forum in which anyone can say anything, no matter how little sense it makes.
Thomas then suggests that Al Gore debate a “credible scientist who is a skeptic.” He is apparently unaware that the man-made global warming theory is so highly regarded in science that the term “credible scientist who is a skeptic” is essentially an oxymoron.
Fortunately, Thomas’ view appears to be on the way out. I look forward to a more reasonable climate policy in the coming years.
Todd Mooring, Lincoln
Men and a right to choose
An Associated Press survey reports 21 Nebraska state senators think a pre-emptive ban on abortion is logical, if Roe v. Wade is overturned. How pious.
I wonder if men who buy those little blue pills and other meds to help themselves with their problems have the right to tell a woman what to do or not to do with a condition they helped bring about!
Mike Draper, David City
Culler is a school of great tradition and rich diversity. Students at Culler are exposed to many different cultures, values and beliefs.
Students at Culler are allowed to be themselves and not fit into any particular mold. Being unique is encouraged, not ridiculed.
Kids are judged by their individual talents and abilities and not by their last name, where they live, the color of their skin, their wardrobe or what their parent(s) do for a living. Anyone can achieve if they put forth the effort.
A few years back, I had the chance to help coach creative problem-solving at Culler. The kids on the team were so energetic and creative that we took first place at state.
Far too often the accomplishments of a school are never noticed. Thank you for the spotlight.
Lynn Ayers, Lincoln
Climate change scientists
Cal Thomas’ Dec. 29 criticism of the “global warming cult” is a regrettable contribution to the enormous literature of misinformation on climate change.
First, the report on which the piece is based aims to debunk the scientific consensus on the reality of human-caused global warming. It does nothing of the sort.
Titled “Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007,” the document consists largely of quotes from scientists and other academics critical of the global warming theory. It appears to have been compiled primarily by searching the Internet.
The climate credentials of many of the people cited in the report are unclear at best: Perhaps this is why they have been forced to voice their views in blogs and other forums of limited scientific merit.
Instead of surveying peer-reviewed literature, a reasonable way to determine the state of the art in a scientific field, the committee’s staffers chose to analyze the content of a forum in which anyone can say anything, no matter how little sense it makes.
Thomas then suggests that Al Gore debate a “credible scientist who is a skeptic.” He is apparently unaware that the man-made global warming theory is so highly regarded in science that the term “credible scientist who is a skeptic” is essentially an oxymoron.
Fortunately, Thomas’ view appears to be on the way out. I look forward to a more reasonable climate policy in the coming years.
Todd Mooring, Lincoln
Men and a right to choose
An Associated Press survey reports 21 Nebraska state senators think a pre-emptive ban on abortion is logical, if Roe v. Wade is overturned. How pious.
I wonder if men who buy those little blue pills and other meds to help themselves with their problems have the right to tell a woman what to do or not to do with a condition they helped bring about!
Mike Draper, David City
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