Mailbag

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a local grad

The article you wrote on Kelly Blatz was something everyone would be interested to read (“Channeling his superpower,” March 14). It lets people know that the Toon Disney channel is changing to Disney XD and is more for boys ages 6 to 14 and also for girls who like action. It lets people also know how amazing it is that so many young teens from our local areas are becoming famous. It seems like most of the local actors now are from Burbank High. Blake Lively was from Burbank High and she is doing very well now. Kelly Blatz is from Burbank too and its making the school itself look better also.

I enjoyed reading this article because I was a student from Burbank High and it just amazes me how so many students from Burbank are becoming famous. It’s nice to know that actors and actress who are becoming famous are from our areas like Burbank or Glendale.

ANNA AVEDISIAN

Burbank

Teachers layoffs have further consequences

I am replying to Orville Grené’s letter in the Burbank Leader titled “Teacher layoffs will hurt community” (Mailbag, March 21).

Just like the writer of this letter, I cannot believe that we might have teacher layoffs in our city, referring to the first possible teacher layoff notices being distributed in Burbank (“District sends layoff notices,” March 14).

How can we create new jobs and invest in new and green technology if we are sending layoff notices to our teachers? Our leaders tend to not understand that if we are going to create these new jobs and advance in new and green technology, we need future researchers and scientists who we must first educate.