Keep it Kent-Meridian

"Getting a close look at firefighting" (Kent Reporter, Aug. 22) was probably the best article written in the Reporter in the last several years. We found it very informative while also very interesting. Well done.

“Getting a close look at firefighting” (Kent Reporter, Aug. 22) was probably the best article written in the Reporter in the last several years. We found it very informative while also very interesting. Well done.

But then I started reading about Kent-Meridian and the proposed renaming of our high school to include the word “international.” What’s next? Kent International? Washington State International? Then there is United States of International America. Be real.

We are supposed to be a country of assimilation, not a country that divides it people by being a country of diversity. Yes, it is great to have many nationalities among us with their various backgrounds, but let us welcome them as Americans and expect them to assimilate by learning and using the English language. After all, isn’t that one of the reasons that they “chose” the USA?

Isn’t that what the immigrants of the past did? And what contributions they made to America!

Keep K-M as K-M.

– Joe and Joan Marks


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