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Letters
The city might as well go all the way with concerts
How times have changed! The city of Saratoga and the West Valley-Mission Community College District locked in combat over the creation of a viable outdoor sports stadium and potential concert venue at West Valley College.
Was it not just a few short years ago that the city of Saratoga looked the other way (wink, wink) as Montalvo, the city of Saratoga's sacred cow, expanded from five concerts and no amplified sound to 60-plus concerts with amplified sound, forcing the neighbors to sue and then have jammed down their throats what many folks think was and is a ludicrous joke of an "agreement," that permits a gross expanded use at Montalvo at the expense of the neighborhood; all because the city did not first require Montalvo to get a use permit?
Why not let the community college district create a state-of-the-art sports complex and concert venue at West Valley College? After all, would not this put the city of Saratoga on the map as the concert capital of the world, with concerts going on potentially year-round at Montalvo, Paul Masson and West Valley College?
Who cares about the awful noise pollution, traffic congestion and all the other nuisances and problems associated with large crowds. A state-of-the-art sports complex and concert venue at West Valley College would be great for business in downtown Saratoga.
And, as Montalvo is always looking for additional concert venues to generate revenue, rather than compete with Montalvo and Paul Masson in the concert business, the community college district could join forces with Montalvo and let them run a joint concert program at West Valley College that would benefit both organizations with additional revenue, and all for the students.
Who cares about a few neighbors? We know that they are all a bunch of crazy reactionaries living in the past. They can always be sacrificed on the altar of the almighty buck and pro-growth development that destroys what once was a great environment and neighborhood.
Wolf-Andre' Wanka
Madrone Hill Road
Alternative to local school's 'homosexual club'
Saratoga High School students and their parents need to be made aware of the available alternative to the recent implication of the Gay-Straight Alliance Club at the high school. This alternative is available through 11 legal organizations, located throughout California, which receive their financial support through voluntary contributions from members who wish to preserve family values. The 11 organizations have formed together under the title, "Youth Advisory Project," to support student-initiated pro-family clubs to counter the homosexual agenda of indoctrinating students into the homosexual lifestyle.
My concern regarding the recently formed homosexual club was initiated by conversations with several Saratoga parents whose children attend Saratoga schools. All of the parents have stated they do not wish to have their children exposed to the homosexual agenda, but are intimidated by the fear that, if they complain, or their children complain, their children will automatically be excluded from normal school functions.
My next question was directed to the students themselves since the supposed need for homosexual indoctrination is based on homosexual discrimination. Because student "put-downs" of the other students have existed in our educational system from the system's formation, my question was, To what extent are anti-homosexual comments prevalent in comparison with other student put-downs, such as "beanpole," "fat face," "slow jock," etc.?
From this personal student survey it would appear that homosexual put-downs occur 1/10 of 1 percent as often as other types of put-downs. Since the justification for homosexual indoctrination in the Saratoga High School is based on two reported incidents, think of all the other interesting clubs that could be formed, based on the put-downs of any categorized group of students.
Focus On The Family, an organization with over 200 million daily radio listeners, has created a checklist to assess a school's risk for encouraging homosexual behavior. The second risk is creating a "homosexual student club," based on the assumption that students involved in homosexuality are "a self-contained minority who need higher self-esteem and greater comfort with homosexual behavior".
The problem with this assumption is that it "establishes adult/community support for participation in homosexuality with all its known risks. A club provides a venue where students curious about this behavior, but who have not yet engaged in it, can readily meet students and even adult advisors to begin homosexual relations--with school support!
With the emphasis on homophobia, these clubs become breeding grounds for hostility, where bigoted attitudes are nurtured against anyone who objects to homosexual behavior, objections which can save a student's life."
Attorneys associated with the Youth Advisory Project are available to defend students' constitutional rights and for establishing a pro-family club to counter the misinformation presented by homosexual activists or school officials in propagating the homosexual agenda.
Student rights listed by the Youth Advisory Project are;
1) You have the right to speak your opinion and engage in persuasive argument about any issue that is discussed in schools, without the fear of discrimination, retaliation or punishment.
2) You have the right to disagree with, question and to dispute political correctness in textbooks, classroom instruction and official school policies.
3) You have the right to invite speakers into your school to present your side of the issues to the same extent as students with "politically correct" views.
4) You have the right to form pro-family student clubs and to have access to school facilities and resources to the same extent as every other noncurricular club.
M. Elaine Hocker
Saratoga
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Saratoga, California Since 1955
