Bring back summer schools

Dear Sir:

I am writing to this newspaper as I want the school authorities across Florida, especially in Broward County, to bring back summer schools. When they existed they served a useful purpose. They helped children with failing grades, and they were very useful in keeping children occupied while on holidays. 

Two of my children, in Middle school in Broward barely made a D average last school year. Both have problems in mathematics, and as I never passed math in high school I can hardly help them. I have been trying to get a tutor to help them, but I cannot find anyone. This would be so much easier if the schools, like what happened a few years ago, held summer classes to help children who had weak grades. I don’t understand the argument that the school board cannot afford to the cost of summer classes. We are paying a lot of taxes so why can’t this be used to finance the summer classes. Or, if it comes to the worse then the school board could ask parents to pay a small fee for summer classes.

Our children need help from the schools to improve their grades, and the summer is right for classes to be held to do this.

Maria Blythe, Plantation

Stop disrespecting black women

Dear Sir:

I am sick of the way women, especially black women are being dissed all over the world. I was watching music videos on TV the other day, and aljost all the videos with black women were revealing woman with their private parts exposed, or being sex toys to men. When I switched the channel to one showing country and western videos, the white women in those videos were treated with more respect.

It is time for these videos to stop showing black women as sex objects, with huge buttocks and breasts, gyrating like snakes. It’s sick. Black women need to be uplifted in videos, in advertisement and in all areas of life. And the women themselves should demand that they don’t use them like that. Big up, black women. Big-Up!

Chantelle Phipps, Melbourne