Letters To The Editor

The bears either have to be controlled with a hunting season or people will start controlling them in other ways, which may be worse.

Ronald R. Baker

Shrewsbury, Pa.

Angry words defame the city school board

I do not know who is to blame for the financial woes of Baltimore's schools. What I do know is that my grandmother, school board member Dorothy Siegel, has not committed any crimes for which she should "march down to the city jail" and turn herself in to be arrested ("Schools to get state money, Ehrlich says," Feb. 17). Furthermore, no one should be shot, on or off camera at dawn or at any other time of the day ("Blame game skips over victims of school fiasco," Feb. 17).

The gentlemen responsible for those absurd and inflammatory comments should consider their words more carefully, and those reporting such comments would do well to recall the tenets of responsible journalism and not print such defamatory garbage.

Alexa Siegel

Towson

Relieve the city of school burden

Incredible. I can't believe intelligent leaders could be so gullible and irresponsible in the handling of other people's money. And I am appalled that Mayor Martin O'Malley and his cabinet and a highly respected organization such as the Abell Foundation would allow themselves to be bamboozled into loaning funds to keep the city schools operating ("Md. offers an advance of $42 million," Feb. 18).

These actions take state schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick and the state school board off the hook for the fiscal fiasco.

Ms. Grasmick and the state board should take over the city system completely - with complete control and, above all, complete funding, and see if they can run the system on the miserly state funding.

Let's relieve the city, totally, of this unbearable burden.

Harry E. Bennett Jr.

Baltimore