What on Earth is wrong with people? I’m talking about Kathy Steinem — GCC, Senior Center and community dance instructor. Here’s a woman who lives to dance, has spent her entire life dancing and who loves to share her talent and enthusiasm with others. Much of her work goes uncompensated, or is offered at discount prices. And here she is bending over backwards trying to implement dance/exercise for chair bound seniors and she’s chastised for not having a specific credential to work with a seated population. This is like forbidding a NASA physicist from teaching high school physics or mathematics. Hello! People like Kathy Steinem don’t come along everyday who are willing to work for a pittance and to do so with a smile on her face and encouraging attitude. Smarten up, folks!
Apologize to her, reinstate her and compensate her back pay, for goodness sake. And where’s the mayor here speaking out on Ms. Steinem’s behalf? Stand up and be heard; it’s the right thing to do.
Brad Brigham
Colrain