Ms. Magi, I read your article and find it hard to agree with your statement. Not stopping my daughter from speaking how she feels or how she sees her school in trouble is not being obnoxious. It’s something she truly believes in. She has been in the school now for five years, all of which (except this year) have been happy and inspirational. She loved school and now dreads it. She sees her teachers, once happy and outgoing, turn into unhappy adults who don’t want to be there. She is watching a man she admires give up something that is a part of him and walk away (Mike Duprey) as well as Mr. Wherli and Sharon Jones to name a few. In her head she is wondering “Why?” When a child has these concerns, it makes you stop and listen. She spoke the truth and she spoke from the heart. Now, why would you call a child that? You do not attend the school nor are you a teacher, so how do you know what she or these teachers are going through? You also stated that if the parents stayed they would have “found out the truth.” That was so insulting to all these parents and teachers and children who came to voice their concerns and were dismissed by the School Committee and not addressed. Now, I respect your opinion, but I do not like how you spoke about my daughter or the others. For that I feel you owe an apology, regardless of what you feel. You disrespected my child and others and that is not acceptable.
Deborah Tyson
Vernon, Vt.