Whitehead taught that editor a lesson

Regarding the Sunday article, “Behavior issues: the battle over Cascade High’s student newspaper”:

So let me get this straight: A teacher volunteers weekend hours to help students run an independent newspaper. A high school student shows enough initiative to work 25 hours a week, go to school full time and edit a newspaper on his own time for no credit. Some of the kids live too far from other computers, so under the supervision of the teacher, the kids use school computers to write and (presumably) lay out the paper.

Most of us would give the kids and teacher some kind of commendation for working hard and doing something on their own. Instead the school district has surveillance equipment installed, fires the teacher and bullies the kid editor into thinking that putting out a newspaper was “the worst mistake of his life.”

What set of un-American ignoramuses hired this wannabe despot in the first place? The elected school board who supported Carol Whitehead’s little experiment in creating a police state should all be held accountable and be unelected.

Is it any wonder that a country that was once held up as a beacon of freedom has become a populace of sheep who bleat their way through life, terrified of stepping the least bit out of some puffed-up pseudo-Napoleon’s line? That’s the lesson we gave David Whittemore — show initiative and we’ll crush you like a bug.

Christopher Bingham

Snohomish