Letters: Denver schools’ “enrollment guide” spotlighted an important issue but was late on arrival
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Megan Schrader’s enrollment guide spotlighted an important issue, but a little too late
Re: “What DPS doesn’t want parents to know during school choice enrollment,” Feb. 11 commentary
Kudos to The Denver Post and writer Megan Schrader for the Sunday column. This is the kind of independent reporting of an important local issue that is too infrequent in The Denver Post.
The piece not only illustrates the arrogance of the local school board and its total mistrust of parents but also shows the dysfunction of a teacher-union-run school board. Further, it highlights the all too common misuse of the term equity, which now seems to mean government control of our children. I, for one, will go back to a much more accurate and helpful term: equality!
Francis Wardle, Denver
You published the open enrollment guide on Sunday, Feb. 11, one day before the deadline. You’re a little late. This grandstanding would have been useful last month, at the opening of enrollment on Jan. 11.
I am disappointed with your gratuitous digs at teacher unions. Teachers want every student to succeed. They work face-to-face with their students in the classroom and in the community. They look beyond the Colorado Department of Education website every day.
Victoria Swearingen, Denver
Sharing Aidan Halloran’s loss and fight
Re: “State wrestling tournament: Getting his life back,” Feb. 15 sports story
Thank you for devoting the time, space, and resources to present this sensitive and detailed portrait of life in this small town. We are introduced to perseverance and love prevailing through trauma and tragedy.
As a citizen of the Front Range, I very much appreciate this glimpse into a world very much different than mine. The Post has fulfilled an important role of journalism.
Evan Siegel, Westminster
Many Colorado women still can’t access abortion services
Re: “Does abortion initiative prevent “real freedom of choice?” Feb. 4 letters to the editor
Abortion is legal and protected in Colorado thanks to enlightened and humane legislation adopted in 2022 in 2023. However, it is not accessible for all citizens in our state thanks to a voter-approved 1984 amendment to the Colorado Constitution.
No public funds may be spent on abortion in our state. That means that public employees and Medicaid recipients do not have insurance coverage for abortion services. As a former city attorney in Denver who practiced child protection law for DHS for 35 years, I had no coverage and the hundreds of sex abuse victims I sought to protect also had no abortion coverage. Many of them were pregnant as the result of abuse at the hands of perpetrators in their own homes. They wanted and needed abortions but could not access them. The suffering created by this cruelty and inequity is enormous and long-lasting.
We need to remember that children are Medicaid recipients and deserve full reproductive health care services. Public employees have dependents. Right now, the children of teachers, hospital workers, firefighters, snow plow drivers, and thousands of other public employees do not have insurance coverage for abortion services. Initiative 89 will repeal this heinous amendment and make abortion services and insurance coverage available to every citizen in the state of Colorado. It’s fair, just, and equitable.
Leah Audin, Denver
A plague of expired plates
Re: “Honorary diplomats file suit over nixing of their special consular license plates,” Feb. 8 news story
As a motorist in the Denver area, I cannot tell you how many expired temporary tags I see on the streets. Some are more than a year old. To target 33 foreign diplomats and consulates seems ludicrous and disgraceful. Let’s get our priorities straight.
Allen H. Vean, Denver
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