letter to the editor

Votes settle things

Mon, 03/26/2018 - 5:30pm

Dear Editor:

Alna has been through a rough couple of months, with folks sharply divided on the issue of private school choice. But votes are good, because they settle things. One side prevails and one does not; and then we move on.

I don’t doubt for a minute the sincerity of the people on the opposite side of the issue from me. They believed that they were doing the right thing for Alna just as much as I did. But as one wise person on the other side said to me after our last public hearing on the matter: “We probably agree on 99 things out of a hundred; it’s just on this one we didn’t.” Now we can all get back to the 99.

Doug Baston

Alna