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All tagged 2019/02
As regular readers of the Swarthmorean with a strong commitment to strengthening our community, we write to share our concerns about a headline in last week’s paper for an article about the latest school board meeting. We were startled and disappointed by the use of the phrase “then things got weird” to refer to a victim’s impact statement regarding a sexual assault against a special needs girl in our district.
I write regarding your article “If a Tree Survey Falls . . .” in the Feb. 15 issue. You say “However, council members were of different views about the desirability of the health assessment component.” We all support the survey’s health assessment; it’s risk assessment of street trees that we were debating. The title of the article and the expression “back to the drawing board” in the last paragraph imply some kind of major setback. Actually, it’s a fairly minor tweaking that should save the Borough money and potential liability.
The headline to our cover story last week about the February 11 meeting of the Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board was “Board Approved Preliminary Budget, Then Things Got Weird.” Several readers interpreted “things got weird” as a reference to the effort by a community member named “Peter” to read a victim impact statement from a WSSD student who experienced sexual violence. That was not our intent.