New leader must set ethical tone

The Everett School District seems to be sliding down a moral slope. In recent years they have tried to solve budget shortfalls by taking money from the ASBs of the high schools, they have taught students that censorship is the way to handle any controversial situation, and the most recent offense was when they put a hidden camera in a teacher’s classroom while deliberately minimizing the paperwork and written accounts of the decision.

As a recent graduate of Everett High School, and a student in the district for all 13 years of my primary education, it worries me that the district thinks these actions were appropriate. The employees at the district level set the tone for the employees at the school level, and those employees set a daily example for the students in our district.

Do we want to teach the students in our schools that they can do whatever they want, moral ambiguity be damned, so long as they hide the paper trail? Should our students learn that they must control anything and everything around them, including all dissenting opinions?

No, we do not want our students to learn either of those lessons.

So, when the district hires someone to replace the outgoing superintendent, I hope that they consider the follies of Carol Whitehead’s administration and look for someone to take this district back toward the ethical standards that we hope to instill in our students.

Jono Hanks

Everett