Editor,
Congratulations to the SMCISD for implementing a mask mandate. You have set an example to all our students that they need not respect authority and ignore it if the authority has them doing something they don't want to do. This example will only make it more difficult for teachers, coaches, employers, and parents to develop young people into responsible adults.
This decision was made without any scientific evidence that masks have any positive results in preventing the spread of this virus, especially among children. On the flip side, there is plenty of evidence that children wearing masks all day are harmed emotionally, socially, and sometimes physically. Forcing children to wear masks is nothing but child abuse and control.
Please remember who you work for and allow parents to decide what's best for their children.
Dean Leach
San Marcos
Editor,
The school board can vote for whatever they want too, as for my family, we WILL NOT be wearing masks.
Good Luck,
Becky Moore
San Marcos
A letter to the editor and to the people who read the paper,
Every day I listen to the local news out of Austin. I cannot believe the one-sided reporting on the Southern borders. All the local stations need to report good or bad. People need to know.
I lived in Zapata, Texas for 28 years. Talking to friends I worked with, they are saying it is such a shame that so many infected with covid are crossing the United States every day. Please people go to the border towns: McAllen, Donna, La Joya, etc. then get out of your cars and check the holding facilities that are overcrowded and overridden with the virus. Not only are they from Mexico, but from other countries as well. Again, good or bad, please report it.
It is not racism if you are here illegally and get pulled over to have your ID checked. They are not U.S. citizens and do not have rights in this country. V.P. Harris gave hundreds of millions to the southern triangle; poor people are not getting it, the politicians are. Last of all, how could any parent give up their child not knowing what will happen to them.
Johnny Malik,
Maxwell
