Vocational colleges should be expanded to accommodate extra college students

I discovered your March 19 put up on web page 2A on vocational faculty admissions fascinating, however in the end miserable.

The individuals within the article are establishing lounge chairs on the Titanic, when they need to be constructing lifeboats.

We’ve got a deficit of seats in technical excessive colleges. Better Lowell Tech has reached its dimension restrict. We’d like extra seats, however the place will we discover them? I applaud the Lowell College committee for engaged on the issue, nevertheless it wants extra work, on the native and state ranges. Perhaps in our space we want an extra regional faculty, with adjusted neighborhood membership. What we do not want is to kick the streets whereas our youngsters are affected by a scarcity of classroom house.

It’s about our economic system, within the sense that with out expert staff we can’t develop. And these are our younger women and men who, with out the mandatory coaching, can’t transfer into productive maturity and take their place as accountable residents.

– CR Krieger
Lowell

State neglect contributed to the massacres

The 2 mass shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, and Boulder, Colorado, spotlight the failure of each states to take affordable and accountable steps to guard their residents from clear threats. In each of those circumstances, the shooters have been capable of enter gun shops and buy high-capacity weapons, which they used to randomly shoot a number of harmless individuals.

The profiles of the 2 males clearly point out that they’ve a historical past of emotional instability and that they have been liable to violence. Beneath an affordable and accountable state licensing system for firearms, these elements would have been recognized and the 2 shooters would have been denied entry to the weapons they used of their mass murders. . Such a refusal can be solely in accordance with the Second Modification.

Progressives advance the false proposition that we should sacrifice our proper to bear arms to ban mindless violence. All of us have the best to guard ourselves and our households. Since final summer time, when progressive mayors throughout the nation refused to ban mob violence, the necessity for private self-protection couldn’t have been clearer.

The issue within the two mass shootings was the management of the state. There may be now ample proof {that a} coverage of unrestricted entry to large-capacity firearms is harmful, however each states have refused to take applicable constitutional measures to guard their residents.

– Dennis Galvin
Westford