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Show Our Readers Write Reader found editorial 'highly inflammatory' back in school and develop skills to help them succeed, never mind the mistake. Administrators and PTA com mittee members are not "barbaric" and they are not "victimizing " teen-agers who chose not to say "no. They are seeking to maintain reasonable standards to best help the total student population. The editorial staff wrote, I feel, a highly inflammatory, judgmental and misleading article, choosing to expound on its own absolute answers an-swers to complex questions. I expect ex-pect responsible, intelligent journalism jour-nalism from our local newspaper. It could have significant impact for good. Please. Charm aine Halversen Bountiful Dear Editor I cannot believe the things I am reading and hearing. Can concerned people in this community no longer sit down together, listen to each other, ask questions of each other, accept the feelings of each other, reason together? Are we not interested inter-ested in accepting the true intent when it is spoken? Do we now read people's minds and "know" what they are thinking? Need a basic striving for standards of conduct be blotted out by repeated referrals to a single incident in a single school? This is written in support of the parents, teachers and administrators in our community who work hard to promote high values of honesty and decency. I am saddened when I hear of people who are so quick to attack, at-tack, rather than seek valid information. informa-tion. It takes a lot of courage to maintain main-tain calm conviction, to repeat honorable intent, clarify a position in the face of innumerable accusatory ac-cusatory telephone calls, and grilling grill-ing by the media. Our family has lived in Bountiful : for over 30 years. Six children have completed the public school process. pro-cess. They have had excellent teachers and PTA volunteer support as well as some not so excellent My response to our children when a problem arose was, "What can you do to help the teacher?" That was my expectation. I expect that parents assume at least the same obligation. Further, responding to what I feel was an inexcusable editorial in Saturday's Sat-urday's Clipper, Nov. 10, I do not believe that any school administrator ad-ministrator is thinking of "banishment" or "choking" personal per-sonal freedom. They care about their pregnant teen-agers (male and female) and non-pregnant teenagers. teen-agers. They want those young mothers to stay in school or get i t |