Strike can also be different. Go to the Binnenhof by bus, hang the NS flag upside down

The trade unions of the NS and the regional transporters have demands and rights. They feel cheated and neglected. So they protest. So far I have no objection.

However: with ‘their’ trains and buses, 750 thousand students travel to the lecture halls with a public transport card. That is not possible this week. And I do object to that. The first-year students are now mentally traveling back to those corona times. Online lecture from the study room. A disaster!

And this time it’s not necessary. Strike can also be different. Let the trains run, but stop checking. Block your own headquarters. Take your buses to the Binnenhof. Hang the NS flag upside down. Just do it!

But don’t slow down our youth. We already have an educational backlog to make up for. Our students cannot afford any more delay. Unions: get those trains running again. Do it for our youth.
Paul Strack van Schijndelteacher Fontys SPECO Sports Communication, Tilburg

Concern

The cabinet wants to remove ‘unproven’ care from the basic package. But what is unproven care? Just rub someone’s back after washing, pour a cup of coffee, hold the hand of a dying person, have a conversation with a loved one? Or an exhausted patient who can live another three months with an extra treatment to experience an important moment in the future?

Should we stop with all those layers of government in healthcare, or have they been scientifically proven? And why bring in the climate and the environment right now? Not helping people to the toilet and leaving incontinence material for 24 hours while you are not incontinent, that is not only bad for the environment but also for people.

Let there be a better euthanasia law, so that people can give thanks for inadequate care and can end their lives with dignity.
Ilona DekkerNieuwegein

Collect

Although I see the advantages of collecting with a QR code, such as collector safety, there is a major drawback. Not everyone has a smartphone that can read QR codes and have the money to buy such a mobile.

Even if I had the money to replace my cell phone, I would think deeply about it. Some of the raw materials come from conflict areas where child labor occurs on a large scale.

I find it a pity that charities in particular do not pay attention to the fact that fewer and fewer people can afford such luxury goods. But perhaps this is also an empty argument: if you cannot afford such a mobile phone, you may not be able to contribute to a collection.
Els van Lierop‘s-Hertogenbosch

cheating stables

Low-emission dairy barns are, especially if the equipment is not used properly, less than claimed. The farmers immediately present themselves as victims instead of perpetrators. But, just like with the wrong diesel cars, let’s call the beast by its name: these are cheat stables of cheat farmers.
Gerard MensinkVleuten

Save energy

Commission president Ursula von der Leyen cs want to save energy and enforce various measures. Totally agree, but not before the wasteful trips to Strasbourg are finally abolished.

Now is the time to protest massively.
Joop van Gestel, Overijse (Belgium)

winter time

One of the intended measures against the energy crisis is to save electricity and gas during peak times in the early evening. Changing consumer behavior indoors from the outside is a hell of a job. A simple form of gentle yet unbending coercion would be not to let winter time begin at the end of October.

We’ve been thinking about that for years, now there’s a really good reason. We already meekly acquiesced to the curfew, so government: seize this opportunity.
Veronique van ZantenBreda

T-shirt

What a horrible sight: all those bare torso in the stands at the Ajax match against the Rangers. Don’t do it again! You are going to watch a match and you are a visitor. In that case, dress appropriately. You also do that when you visit grandma or your girlfriend’s parents.

Everyone wear a t-shirt next time, we say out of respect.
Corry UrsemGouda

Africa

In the section The eternal life September 7 is about nature photographer Adri de Visser, who is disabled by a robbery. ‘The Vissers have not been in Africa since the robbery. That would have been a hell of a ride on the bumpy roads.’

Do we really still think the roads in Africa are all bumpy?
Marion AugusteijnAmsterdam

Out-of-home placements

The Out-of-home placement support team needs to analyze what parents and children need to get together. I agree with this statement by Harriet Duurvoort, as long as it is not taken literally.

It would be anything but desirable for many children if they went back to live with their parents. With all understanding for the problems of the parents, but many of them are not able to offer their children a proper living environment. This is exactly what I get from the Support Team’s report.

Many parents who are approached want a little more time before they are able to care for their supervised children.

I am therefore reassured that only two children have been placed back home and that the team pays a lot of attention to restoring contact between child and parent.

In my work at the JAC (Youth Advice Centre), the family home of the Opbouw and as a project leader within various judicial homes, I noticed this fact: how much parents and children wanted to live under one roof, this concrete wish regularly faced many problems. in the way.

Analyze these problems and reestablish contact, if desired and possible.
Jan BoumanZeist