Letter sent to Editor of Charlotte Observer
Published (in edited form) on June 12, 2007
http://www.charlotte.com/opinion/story/156527.html
Dear Editor:
In the June 8, 2007 editorial on graduation disturbances, the editorial page wrote, “you’d think kids and adults alike would have learned that in kindergarten.” This was in reference to the Galeburg students who were being punished for noise made by adults in the audience.
Is the Charlotte Observer really promoting the concepts of “guilt by association” and “the sins of the father visited on the son” with regard to this issue?
Do you really mean to say that students should be punished for actions committed by their parents? Is this a core principle of the Observer staff?
Would the editorial staff offer up their children to the State to receive punishment in their stead?
This sloppy and fact-lite editorial seems to indicate so.
Maintaining order is one thing, punishing an innocent party for someone else’s actions is quite another.
James Landrith
Founder, The Multiracial Activist
