Letters
School Bust
Class clowns: I am appalled by the antics of the so-called school board (Kansas City Strip, October 25). The election of Robert Stringfield is a perfect example of their complete ineptitude.
If I didn’t have a child, I might think the clowns on the board were great entertainment. The bleak truth, however, is that they are only hurting our children. I may have to sell my soul to pay for a home in Johnson County, but I would rather do that than sell my son’s soul to the Kansas City Missouri School District.
I know firsthand the consequences of a lousy education. I went to private school up through sixth grade, then went into the KCMSD. I sailed through two years at East High School without learning much of anything. I did homework for all of two classes. I showed up three days a week. I made the honor roll every semester. Thinking I must be pretty smart, I got my GED after my sophomore year and started taking college classes. I quickly discovered that I was incapable of taking useful notes, and I hadn’t the slightest idea how to write a paper. I figured out how to pass a class, but it wasn’t easy. The sad thing is, there were kids graduating with less knowledge and study skills than I had, and this was when the district still had accreditation!
I love Kansas City, Missouri. It breaks my heart that I will have to leave it to save my son from being a casualty of the School Board from Hell.
Anastasia Locke
Kansas City, Missouri
Bombs Away
Fly me a river: Regarding C. J. Janovy’s “Holy War” (October 25): Thank reason that Janovy struggled all the way to Knob Noster to discover that:
1. The U.S. military observes neither Christian nor Jewish nor Muslim holy days.
2. People make pictures of Jesus from time to time.
3. The B-2 bomber is really expensive.
4. Some people around a small-town Air Force base will be rude to their elders.
5. Members of law enforcement, like members of other professions, lie sometimes.
6. Those bombers are flying to Afghanistan to drop bombs that may well kill people.
C. J., where would we be without such insight and revelation? I look forward to next week’s installment. Will it be “The Air Force is hierarchical” or perhaps “Some military people go to strip clubs”? Take another trip to Knob Noster, please! Kansas City deserves to know the awful truth!
Mark Browning
Kansas City, Missouri
Best of Show
Paper envy: I spent several hours last evening chuckling at many “Best of Kansas City” (October 18) highlights … especially those aimed at local celebs and radio/TV personalities. Please extend my congratulations to the writers, editors and artists whose contributions made this a unique and entertaining issue.
You can bet the execs at 1729 Grand are reviewing this particular issue with great envy!
Jim Gencur
Overland Park
Mull this over: As always, you all amuse the Channel 9 newsroom. Now everyone is running for their scarves and mullet manuals! Lovely, just lovely.
By the way, my last name is spelled Tatschl, just in case I win next year.
Krista Tatschl
KMBC 9 News
Kansas City, Missouri
Velvet fog: I recently relocated here from Washington, D.C., and I generally find that the Pitch is a handy going-out guide to finding places to hear good live music, etc. I also enjoy many of your articles and reviews, which more often than not are similar to my own [tastes].
While I think your “Best of Kansas City” issue points your readers in the right direction in terms of places to go, etc., I can’t help but cringe at the inclusion of the “Best Place to Meet Republican Guys” category. For God’s sake, please tell me this is a joke! Although I am politically nonaligned, I can’t help but get violently ill at the thought of the female portion of your reading audience flocking to Raoul’s Velvet Room to meet a bunch of tight-ass white guys sucking on stogies and high-fiving each other over the recent surge in Bush’s approval ratings. I think it’s fair to say that there is nothing “cool” about that. In fact, I can’t imagine anything less cool than that.
As you are the primary alternative weekly in this area, I assume you know that more than anyone and are therefore just joking around. I would hate to think I moved to an area forever grounded in ’70s disco (that revival died a good five years ago everywhere else) as discussions of golf games, cigars and port preferences waft through the cotton-Dockers-clad crowd.
With that aside, keep up the good work!
Neal Wolahan
Prairie Village
Crass act: The award for the “Best Distasteful and Vulgar Publication” goes to Pitch Weekly. Anyone who would have categories such as “Best Place to Buy a Dildo” or use insensitive phrasing such as “Best Cheap Alternative to Suicide” is truly offensive.
Choosing a stripper’s G-string as “Best Business Wardrobe” and praising a dildo manufacturer as “Best Home-Grown Product” is cheap and low-class. By ignoring the choice of readers, which in this case was Boulevard Beer, the Pitch has shown that the only opinion it values is its own.
S. B. Walton
Kansas City, Missouri
