Birds Should Enjoy Flight

Along with the letter you are about to read, I have enclosed a picture. While you are reading, please look at the picture.

Birds have to fly down to get their food, and they get caught in the oil and they almost always die. I think to myself, gee, what is this world coming to? I think we need to be more careful. I mean, people are free--they don’t have to fly down to the ocean and get their food.

But back to the picture. It makes the bird look so helpless.

RACHAEL VALENCIA

Oxnard

Editor’s note: These Letters to the Editor come from E.L.M. Street School in Oxnard. E.L.M.--Educational Learning Magnet Intersession--is a new school in the Oxnard School District that offers 10-day sessions for students who are between terms in the all-year school system. Renee Nourai, learning director, said one of the themes for this year is “The Oceans.” Here’s what’s on the students’ minds: