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Let’s take Trump
resistance native

Re: “Newsom prepares for Trump skirmishes” (Web page A1, Nov. 8).

After the outcomes of this election, a lot of my friends and I needed to take an extended have a look at our establishments and within the mirror. Upon studying this text, nonetheless, I’ve gained extra data and confidence in our native techniques.

Donald Trump threatens California’s protections of a lady’s alternative, immigration, the unhoused and LGBT+ rights.

Nevertheless, plainly a lot of my friends have no idea that California suing the federal authorities has resulted in success in defending these rights.

It’s my perception that we have to educate those who that is the case. We could then have a era much less pessimistic concerning the future — a future the place everybody acts extra domestically to guard our rights irrespective of the federal election outcomes.

I recommend selling extra reviews, research and training so the general public and college students are educated on how native and state politics can shield our rights.

Joshua Nisperos
Newark

Younger children prepared for
gender identification discuss

Re: “District instructor on go away after classes on gender identification” (Web page A1, Oct. 17).

Cupertino Union College District mother or father Qina Sa mentioned that as a result of youngsters below 5 are nonetheless growing basic language abilities and cognitive talents, educating about gender identification might create confusion. But analysis means that youngsters as much as age 5 can be taught and course of as much as 5 languages. They’re little sponges, prepared to soak up many extra ideas than adults may assume.

And kids in households with same-sex dad and mom or dad and mom in biracial marriages, or with siblings with varied challenges and sexual orientations, or of assorted races, settle for range. For a extra tolerant society, the time to introduce variations of every kind, together with sexuality, is the early years.

Karen Lee Cohen
Walnut Creek

Faculties ought to focus
on crucial considering

Re: “Faculties to combine AI into curriculum” (Web page B1, Oct. 4).

Seeing college students utilizing AI shocks me.

Forbes reviews that ChatGPT’s water utilization for cooling down servers is is sufficient to provide hundreds of U.S. farms and households. College students already use AI to write down their essays, so educating college students to make use of it might encourage them to be lazier and turn out to be depending on it, hindering their means to assume freely.

As a substitute, college students ought to use AI in additional productive and restricted methods or abandon it altogether. When a pupil depends solely on AI, they begin to neglect the right way to write, not to mention type coherent sentences. Is that this the long run we would like, college students not capable of write with out laptop help? Will our youngsters get by faculty with out AI to information them?

This merely can’t be. We should train our youngsters to look previous AI and assume with their brains extra successfully, not the right way to use a pc’s mind.

Josh Buenaflor
Brentwood

California, nation aren’t
prepared for EVs solely

Re: “It’s time for Californians to go all in on totally electrical autos” (Web page A6, Oct. 15).

Jane Gould and Sue Saunders say California ought to go all in on totally electrical autos. I feel it is a laudable objective however the charging concern looms massive.

Final 12 months, Honda and Toyota, who make extra autos than every other carmaker in the USA, testified in Congress that their analysis and sellers say shoppers usually are not prepared but.

So, the authors ought to take into account plug-in hybrids as an inexpensive interim step, whereas chargers transfer shoppers to adapt to all-electric autos when extra charging options can be found. Residence dwellers can not readily cost their autos when dwelling. It’s not sensible for them to get their autos charged elsewhere whereas they work.

We might have to maneuver sooner, however wishing and laws gained’t make that occur.

Dev Mahadevan
Castro Valley

It’s time to curb extra,
energy of personal fairness

The time has come for personal fairness’s reckoning. It has penetrated each facet of our lives — from housing to groceries, from hospitals to care houses, from preschools to funeral houses, from pet care to copper mines. Initially, it had some legit use, however now it’s the unapologetic middle of blatant greed, awful service and lame excuses.

Its higher reaches are the playground for obscene shows of wealth. Working example, Stephen Schwarzman, the billionaire impresario of Blackstone, the world’s largest non-public fairness agency, simply hosted a 200-person housewarming get together at his $27 million mansion in Newport. Earlier than that, there was his seventieth birthday in Palm Seaside, and earlier than that, his sixtieth which price a reported $3 million-$5 million and featured Venetian gondolas, Arabian camels, Mongolian acrobats and an enormous cake within the form of a Chinese language temple.

Sufficient is sufficient.

Jim Wolpman
Walnut Creek