Sports letters: Modesto Christian, junior colleges

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MC deserves a break

The letter that appeared March 2, titled "Modesto Christian's attitude stinks," was very disturbing to me. I have a granddaughter who graduated from MC and a grandson who is currently attending there. Neither one attends the sports activities of MC, but they have received a very good education from the school.

This person says this school is a big status thing for people who think they are better than everyone else in the world. The names this person mentioned were rude, arrogant, disrespectful, self-centered, and none of them act like true Christians. I believe a true Christian would not call children as young as 4 years old to 18 years old the type of names this person used.

This person talks about MC recruiting players from outside the area. We all know Central Catholic, the school this person seems to be defending, only recruits within a half-mile radius of their school. They wouldn't dream of having a child attend from some other town. Central Catholic would never run up the score like this person accuses MC of doing. I know Central Catholic would never beat some poor, undermanned small school 70-0 in football.

An adult should realize all schools have what is called "school spirit," and I do not think MC has it any more or less than any other school in the area. Remember, these are children you are talking about, some of them mine.

KEN MOORE

Ripon

Point out faults and fingers point back

Have you ever judged Christians because they failed? In Erin Flanagan's letter, she complained about Modesto Christian's attitude and behavior, accused them of recruiting and judged them as unworthy to have the name Christian. When you point out others' faults, three fingers point back at you.

Our culture is full of bad fan behavior. MC has received a lot of it from other schools. In Mariposa, a fan threw a dirt clod at my head. Many people have stinky attitudes.

Success really does breed success. Talented players choose to attend MC. The school is not recruiting.

At MC, you do not have to be a Christian to attend, but you will be taught Christian truths. You will not get this in a public school. If you see sinners there, it is because all people are sinners, including the Christians. That is why Jesus Christ came to earth -- to save us from our sinful selves. The good news is that we can be set free from the evil inside us, and by God's strength, we can learn to do what is good and right. As we practice, eventually God can cause us to be made worthy of the name Christian.

SUSAN WONG

Modesto

Bee has MC pom-poms

And on it goes. Through sun, rain, fog, freezing. Year after year. This great love affair between The Modesto Bee and the Far-Reaching Basketball Factory (aka Modesto Christian).

It's nice for a school to have a good sports team, even if it places no restraints on eligibility of players -- not even international boundaries. But of course, in this instance, the players come to "The Factory" for character education and a renowned curriculum. It is merely an obtrusive aside that a basketball court gets in the way.

The Bee purports to be a local newspaper covering Modesto and surrounding towns. That's a myth when related to sports. Everyone loves a winner, but The Bee really, really, really loves a sports winner, no matter the cost. And the cost here is deep, at the expense of the many local thousands of student-athletes who participate on hundreds of teams, sometimes winning and sometimes losing, but always doing their best and always respecting school district boundaries. That's an item -- boundaries and recruitment -- that "The Factory" can conveniently ignore.