Time to Find the Real Criminals at ARHS
Watching the latest School Committee meeting on TV, I found out that the police interrogated several Crocker Farm School parents in connection with a recent lockdown. They continued their investigation even after the reason (mistaken identity) was clear to all and it was obvious that the parents had nothing to do with the incident. I wonder if this is the best way for our law enforcement to use their resources. It seems that their attention and time would be better used to find the criminals who commit the racial harassments over and over at the high school. If the police who are trained to find seasoned criminals can not solve these crimes, it is time to bring the FBI in to get to the end of this problem and assure the town that our teachers can be safe from racist attacks. We constantly talk about safety in the schools. How can anyone, especially students feel safe in a building knowing that even their teachers can not be protected from these heinous crimes in our schools?
Then, to "Opinion" Daily Hampshire Gazette:
A Sharpie Does Not Slash Tires
"I was reading your guest column "Lightening up our Amherst Angst" by a high school senior with great disappointment. The letter suggest that our community should not be offended so much by the racial attacks on our teacher. "Maybe an angry kid with a sharpie is just an angry kid with a sharpie" the letter suggests. The acts of slashing a teacher's tires, sawing the leg of someone's chair, so it would collapse when one set on it are not done with a sharpie. Although the additional threatening and demeaning words and notes addressing a respectable teacher at the high-school are, they are not just offensive but frightening as well. They are hate speech and racial harassment and are punishable crimes weather done by children or grownups. Students can not feel safe in a school knowing that even their teacher can not be protected by bullying."
Agnes Zsigmondi