LAKE COUNTY
Lake County needs teachers.
There has been recent news regarding a national, state-wide, and local teacher shortage. The number of teachers has declined due to teacher retirement.
If you have a bachelor’s degree, the Lake County Office of Education can help you begin your teaching career.
You can earn your teaching credential through our local accredited Teach Lake County program.
You can also begin by substitute teaching to see if it’s the right fit. The state of California is currently offering those who are interested in becoming a substitute teacher a credential fee waiver.
I encourage those who qualify to answer the challenge and invest in our community and in our children.
If you are interested in becoming a teacher, we are interested in working with you.
Visit our website at lakecoe.org/TeacherRecruitment to learn more.
—Submitted by Brock Falkenberg, Lake County Superintendent of Schools
Coulter receives F grade in History
Ann Coulter’s opinion piece in the Record Bee (Sept.18) had some rather startling revelations (Ann Coulter lies).
Let’s start with Merriam-Webster’s definition of traitor:
1-one who betrays another’s trust or is false to an obligation or duty; 2-one who commits treason.
I would say that Lee satisfies both of these. Coulter’s definition is for a spy.
I am sure that Ann saw the pictures of the construction crew attaching straps to the statue and lifting and removing it from the base. How does this comport with “… with self-satisfied glee, savages tore down the 14-foot statue of Robert E. Lee …”?
And Coulter’s comment that the State Supreme Court “… ruled that the state had a “free speech” right
to violate the deed”, when, in fact they wrote “those restrictive covenants are unenforceable as contrary to public policy and for being unreasonable because their effect is to compel government speech, by forcing the Commonwealth to express, in perpetuity, a message with which it now disagrees”, misleads her audience into believing it was “free speech” rather than “compelled speech” that was the issue. And this court is mainly Republican.
Another startling revelation was, “Thanks to Lee, we became a functioning country again within about 15 years…”. Is that why blacks were not allowed to vote, be involved it government, receive an education, and on and on and on? And yet, when she praises Lee, she has no mention of Grant’s terms of surrender. Grant
treated Lee’s army as if they were no longer the enemy and let them go home with their pride intact. I expect that this was the convincing force behind Lee’s decision to not wage guerilla war. Her last comments couldn’t be more wrong.
Black people “suddenly offended”? They have been offended since the statues were erected. And “… bitter that their ancestors had nothing to do with the creation of this country”? Coulter needs to read the 1619 project. Slavery was going on long before the colonies broke away from England. And, as Ann says, “The vandalizing of American history has absolutely nothing to do with black people or slavery.” It has to do with racists and white supremacists being right about their own history. This is why so many southerners still believe the Civil War was because of “State’s Rights”, and not the right of the States to continue to own slaves. Just read the secession declarations by the Southern States for this information.
So, does Ann Coulter deserve an A or a F for her historical knowledge?
—Kevin Bracken, Kelseyville
