Kudos to CHS for handling of walkout

Dear Editor:

Our entire family was quite heated with the attack on CHS Principal Derek Folan in the paper last week, about his alleged political motives behind the planned student walkout. This reader clearly does not have teenage children!

We are Second Amendment supporters and student supporters! Yes, you can be both!

Thank you to the school administration, from Superintendent Dr. Fischer-Mueller to Principal Folan, who listened to their students, our children, who want to take their schools back. To make schools once again a place where they can go to learn and be safe at the same time.

These students (I hope with the support of their parents, like us) are looking for answers to school violence and ways to make all schools safe for the future of all students.

We know that taking away our Second Amendment rights is not the answer, and we are fortunate to have some of the toughest gun laws in the U.S., but these students want to be heard. They want to challenge the lawmakers to be looking out for them, the students, the future of this country.

Part of any education is teaching our children how to be heard, how to stand up for what they believe in. A great number of students approached Mr. Folan about participating in this walkout. As always, the safety of our children is his first priority, so working with all parties, including the CPD, they were able to come up with this option to give the students a chance to recognize, honor and remember those lost to school violence, and use their voices to be part of the solution.

If this solution had not been brought forward, we had already given our student permission (with a permission slip) to walk out of school for 17 minutes to observe this national observance in her own way. I truly believe that many students walking out without some kind of organization would not have been productive and would have been a safety nightmare for our school administration.

For all of the issues these administrators face that we could never have dreamed of when we were that age, we thank you!

Kristin Draper (and family)

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Posted by Canton Citizen on Mar 24 2018. Filed under From One Citizen to Another, Opinion. Both comments and pings are currently closed.