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Students must make choices
Constance Fuller bemoans that her seventh-grade daughter may have to choose between band and languages (Forum, April 14). Possibly Fuller believes life is an ever-expanding source of consumption, with ever-expanding choices without limits to supply or means. Life is not like that, and Fuller should be happy to be able to teach her daughter the conditions of life, within which she is going to mature. She has the opportunity to teach her daughter the facts of economics, which involves making choices among endless desires when facing limited resources.
Fuller’s request for us to help students by agreeing to pay more taxes to support her philosophy of unlimited options just convinced me to vote against Measure A. If enough people do so, her daughter will learn a much more valuable lesson than taking both band and languages will teach her. I am sure she would grow up a more balanced person able to better cope with the realities of life.
By the way, if she must make a choice, encourage her to consider taking band. She can learn languages at a later age, after she has given up playing an instrument.
Leon Garoyan
Davis
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