Sound Off: February 13, 2026
Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.
School choice
The school choice bill is dangerous. School choice sounds good, but money will be taken away from public schools to fund them. Funding for public schools has been shortchanged for years. Republicans want the public schools to fail, so that people will look for other options. The end goal is to eliminate public schools so that rich people can run them for profit. Not only will citizens have to pay for their children’s education, but there will be no laws to make sure that schools teach everything in a non-biased way.
No to vouchers
Vouchers/School Choice is most definitely an attack on public education. At a time when we are thousands of teachers short in MS public schools, the last thing we need is doling out monies to parents who want to send their children to academies, private or parochial schools. Any public school ‘extra’ money for this proposed purpose should immediately be routed into present public teachers’ salaries to keep and lure good educators. Public school can accommodate children with special needs, by law, that private schools many times cannot.
Role model
The Hancock school administration said the hecklers who shouted racial slurs to a Black player at a baseball game did not represent the school’s values. Really? What values do they represent when social media shows bad behavior from our leaders daily with little consequence
Nonsense
How in the world can any free-thinking American take anything presidential candidate Harris said seriously? She never uttered a coherent sentence in the first place.
Manhole covers
Good luck to the person complaining about the manhole covers on Hewes Avenue. I have been complaining about low manhole covers in Biloxi for years. Nothing has changed; all of our newly paved streets are filled with low manhole covers. My thoughts are that the contractor and the city inspector are friends with benefits. I know that I am tired of my city paying for crappy road work, and I will be voting different next election.
Let go and enjoy
You don’t always have to understand something to enjoy it, even to enjoy it immensely. Consider many works of art or fashion or performances of music or Olympic performances. Yes, understanding, where possible, would increase the enjoyment, but it is not necessary, unless you just won’t let yourself enjoy it for some reason.
I can’t understand
Like many Americans, I was confused by the language used in the heavily promoted halftime show. I’m hoping someone here might be able to shed some light on what, exactly, it was that I heard. The best I can tell, it went “Bawitdaba, da bang da bang, diggy diggy diggy said the boogie, said up drop the boogie.”
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