A selection of reader comments from our Facebook page last week:
On a story about low scores giving Bluefield Intermediate parents the option of transferring students:
• If the scores are that low is the reflection on the teachers or the students? How will moving the students help? Do they need to test the teachers or replace the teachers? I do not understand why the students should be moved — Charlene L.
• I don’t understand how the whole school could have below standard scores for two years in a row! This should have been investigated further during the first year of failure. Before the kids are moved, the teachers hired there need to be checked out first to make sure the problem isn’t with them ... — Karen S.
On a poll question asking if you agree with the decision of a Massachusetts judge who ordered prison officials provide sex-reassignment surgery for a murder convict:
• No, I do not! — Pam B.
• What a waste of taxpayers’ dollars — Beverly S.
• I support forced gender reassignment surgery for sex offenders, but not murderers — Josh S.
• What’s next? Fake breasts for female inmates because they have low self esteem? — Chrissy C.
• No! Taxpayers are required to provide health care not elective surgery for prisoners — Bridgett J.
• No, I don’t agree, not for someone that is in prison. And if they want to kill themselves for not getting a sex change, then honey let them. I think they should be put to death anyway, and not wait 20 years to do it — the ones that commit murder and rape — Cindy G.
• Wow! I don’t agree with this at all! — Teri B.
• If they want a sex change, so be it, but not at the taxpayers’ expense. Jeez — Heather P.
• ... Why should taxpayers pay for something like this? It cost enough to keep murderers alive, let alone an operation like this. And what good would it do him? — Della S.
• This is just wrong. I can’t even afford to go to a doctor, much less allowing prisoners to have surgeries like this. What kind of message does this send — go get in trouble and go to jail and you can get your sex change or whatever? Sad! — Tranessa L.
• What’s wrong with this country? Why should taxpayers pay for his choice? — Debbie M.
• What? For real? Taxpayers shouldn’t be responsible for something so stupid! If that’s the case people should go to prison to get free plastic surgery. I need bigger (word deleted). Maybe I should rob a store. Not! — Alicia P.
• It is because of laws and judges like this that we create criminals in America and do not protect the innocent ... This is sending the message now that if you want medical coverage and elective surgeries then go to jail — America will pay for you to be whatever you want when you go to jail. This is sick, sad and the most stupid decision I have ever heard of to be legally justified and paid for by America. Shame on anyone who supports stupidity and ignorance like this and has no real insight on the problems they are creating. Sex reassignment surgery is a personal choice not a public debate or public decision and should not be a public sponsored surgery either :( Cynthia C.
• Crazy — Sunshine G.
• They’re stupid idiots — Jim M.
On a story about a stretch of highway in Texas having an 85 mph speed limit:
• As a former McDowell County native who now lives in Texas, I don’t think the new speed limit will be too fast. People drive that fast already, now they won’t have to worry about getting a speeding ticket — Rosetta S.
On a story in which the parents of a man who shot two West Virginia State Police troopers blame drugs for their son’s problems:
• ... kudos to the parents to owning up to what a dirtbag this guy really was. Unfortunately, I only see more of this type of behavior in our future if prescription drug abuse isn’t tackled head-on — starting at the source, the corrupt doctors prescribing these things like candy — Wes L.
• I feel for the parents. How many people have lost friends and family to drugs or know someone who has? However, the man knowingly took the drugs and then he pulled the trigger and killed two people. He pulled the trigger — Heather P.
On a story about Drew Peterson being found guilty:
• So glad this SOB got what he should have a long time ago — Denise W.
• Have no doubt that he has killed several wives, but it’s a slippery slope when the state enacts a specific law so he can be tried on hearsay — Bill S.
On a story about rounded beer glasses causing those drinking to chug much faster:
• Yeah boy, blame it on the glasses. What about the brain behind the arm that is lifting the glass to drink from it? Duh — Brenda M.
• Bring on bigger glasses! — Robert B.
On a story about a kitten surviving a 100-mile ride on a car bumper:
• Was this the Romney family car? Dog on the roof, cat on the bumper ... — George S.
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