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Wholesale adjustments risk
to Twitter’s relevance
Re: “Twitter signal X-ed out at S.F. places of work” (Web page C7, July 26).
From revolutionizing the automotive trade with Tesla to spearheading the SpaceX program, Elon Musk has persistently caused fascinating adjustments. Whereas Musk’s propensity for innovation is commendable, the change of Twitter’s identify and brand to “X” is a call that warrants open dialogue.
Twitter, since its inception in 2006, has been an integral a part of our cultural panorama. It has served as a platform for individuals to share their ideas and join with others. The long-lasting hen and the idea of “tweets” have grow to be symbols of this digital realm, making Twitter indispensable.
With Musk’s Twitter acquisition, adjustments had been inevitable. Nonetheless, the choice to utterly change the identify and brand raises issues about dropping the historic significance and our collective id related to Twitter. Preserving the platform’s legacy and sense of group ought to be on the forefront of this transition, guaranteeing that the values that made Twitter a cultural phenomenon worldwide stay intact.
Alexandria Luo
Sunnyvale
Faculties want extra
rigor, no more video games
Re: “New math proposal provides gasoline to debate” (Web page A1, July 27).
California’s new plan for instructing math, which gamifies the method in response to off-the-charts failure charges, represents a tragic actuality in regards to the state of our public colleges.
As a substitute of accelerating rigor, faculty officers utterly rework tips and curricula tailor-made to the optimum “outcomes.” We shouldn’t reinvent the wheel completely earlier than taking a better take a look at issues already embedded within the faculty system: college students’ poor examine habits, an absence of educational rigor and the elimination of accelerated course paths.
All of our public faculty college students will endure if the requirements are lowered.
Adam Abolfazli
San Francisco
Letter misunderstands
our type of authorities
Re: “In California, Dems are anti-democratic” (Web page A6, July 27).
Jay Morrett appears to not perceive our primary consultant type of authorities. He notes that we by no means voted on issues such because the gasoline tax, the closing of faculties throughout COVID or zoning legal guidelines … all of which is true as a result of our authorities is, properly, consultant.
We elect representatives to resolve such issues in order that we don’t have to sit down all day at our computer systems voting. If we’re displeased with what they do, we vote them out.
Relating to the GOP having no voice, it is a downside even on the nationwide degree. Having a voice means providing constructive applications relatively than simply being the occasion of no.
James Bangsund
San Jose
Transfers to elite colleges
face extra class time
Re: “Copy California for extra variety in your faculties” (Web page A9, July 27).
That is in reply to Stephen Deal with’s op-ed, which inspires elite faculties to simply accept switch college students from group faculties.
There’s a superb purpose why elite faculties like MIT settle for only a few switch college students. The tempo and depth of instruction at locations like MIT far exceeds that of most faculties, so even when a switch scholar had been accepted, they’d get nearly zero switch credit, thus requiring them to spend a further 4 years to graduate.
Sue Kayton
Menlo Park
GOP officers should
clarify Trump assist
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, look your daughter within the eye and guarantee her that ex-President Trump, convicted of sexual assault, is match to be president once more.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, as a retired JAG officer whose profession targeted on nationwide safety, persuade your greatest pal that Trump ought to be Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Companies once more, understanding he has been indicted for violation of the Espionage Act.
Rep. Steve Scalise, you strongly assist regulation enforcement. Inform your loved ones that you may be safe in one other Trump presidency, understanding that he watched and did nothing as police had been brutalized defending you on Jan. 6.
Rep. Nancy Mace, persuade your center schoolers, as they sit in social research courses studying in regards to the significance of voting, {that a} Trump workforce will know the distinction between licensed votes and faux ones and rely solely on the individuals’s vote.
We want you to inform the reality earlier than the following election.
Patricia Andrews
San Jose
Israel needs U.S. to
be silent benefactor
Re: “U.S. ought to butt out of Israeli home points” (Web page A6, July 21).
