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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 2020
Page
4
Letters argue trustees are owners’ reps and must supervise one employee the superintendent. They warn deviation creates community contention and harms children. Trustees urged to consult patrons and resist renaming Robert E. Lee High School.
A Baytown resident, class of 1968 from Robert E. Lee High, speaks on a grave community issue. He links past injustices to present action, urging truths: it’s never late to fix a wrong and knowledge empowers right choices. He ends with hopeful appreciation for slow progress.
A discourse argues that honoring Robert E. Lee in schools and public spaces sustains a history of oppression. It calls for removing his name from tax funded institutions, placing him in history books, and teaching why such glorification harms all people today.
Over a century ago residents formed a school district and appointed subject matter experts, a superintendent, and elected trustees to govern. Taxpayers fund facilities and operations, with trustees acting as fiduciaries, focusing on education for students and families as the district’s customers and owners.
Dr. Steve Showalter argues the law and order debate exposes left defund rhetoric and right wing hypocrisy. He cites Austin budget shifts toward social services and police funding, Abbott budget cuts, and media amplification of fringe views, urging readers to ignore extremism.
The BBB committee continues nine to ten months of repairs for the Battleship Texas and aims to dock in Baytown. Through Zoom calls, meetings, emails, and site visits with the Battleship Texas Foundation, they pursue additional paperwork with the city and foundation. Executive members stay cautiously optimistic.
A Baytown Sun reader reflects on progress’s two faces, praising information access and convenience from computers and the Internet while warning of downsides. The piece discusses deteriorating personal contact, online shopping harming retail, rising debt, changing family and marriage norms, and a drift from religious belonging, concluding with a call to be faithful and beaming toward God.
On this date in 1813 Oliver H. Perry commanded American forces and defeated the British at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. Perry sent the famous message We have met the enemy and they are ours.
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