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Reader: Students were ‘mollycoddled’

Well readers, we have been introduced to the next chapter of mollycoddling, this time involving a handful of students who were obviously used by one or more adults to drive an agenda, some of whom may or may not work for the BOE.

If you’ve read Robert Ware’s letter to the editor published last Saturday, Oct. 16, you should see why I feel Delegate Cody Thompson knew about this in advance. He certainly wasted no time jumping into the fray when it hit social media. Mr. Ware was correct to lecture him for that and the BOE should take him to the woodshed. As Mr. Ware said, you’re not special.

An artist said a teacher approached the group and personally requested an LGBTQ-themed mural. Did anyone ask the student who the teacher was and which school they taught in?

I’m sticking my neck out again but it’s my honest opinion that juvenile students for the most part lack the skills and reasoning to venture into this realm. They are not adults and this is absolutely adult territory. They should not be taking requests for a mural theme from a teacher whose name remains anonymous to the public.

Those meetings between students and administration should have included the parents, with the children sitting beside them. The BOE apparently is afraid of parents, not just in Randolph but statewide. (Actually nationwide.) They definitely don’t like them coming to open meetings when controversial issues are likely to come up. Loudoun County, Virginia is the current flagship. That’s not the way it’s done, folks.

Of course there is no help from the church anymore. Most have bought into it and accept it. Last Sunday the Rev. John Hagee said you can disobey the government with God’s blessing if the government condones what God condemns, and compromise with the world is treason in God’s Heaven. Does anybody know a local church with a creed like that?

Our schools need to stop mollycoddling these kids. Get them some real professional help. They will have no protection once they graduate, and by that time their mind is made up and the world can be cruel. There’s little chance you will change their minds but you might convince them that actions like what just went down at TVHS might not be in their personal best interest.

God save us!

Harold Arbogast

Parsons

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