Regarding the Tuesday article, “4 teens arrested after Marysville school, library hit with graffiti“: The four 14- and 15-year-olds caught vandalizing the Marysville Library and Grove Elementary School would be well served with a stiff sentence of community service at both of these locations, ideally under the supervision of their parents, who apparently lost track of them at 11:30 p.m.
Being a Grove educator, I know there are plenty of dirty windows and weeds to keep them busy for a long while. (Our custodial and maintenance staff are already stretched thin and I am sure this incident hasn’t helped their workload as they try to ready the building for students.) I have spent the past two years with profane words etched outside my kindergarten classroom windows and am sad that Grove students will be entering our beautiful building on the first day of school witnessing this most recent damage.
Make the punishment fit the crime, hold parents accountable as well, and set an example so young people know there is zero tolerance for vandalism in our community.
Lisa VanderWeyst
Arlington
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