Letters to the Editor

 

To the Editor:

I can't decide what astounded me more as I read Sound Off today : the notion that "...MSAD 15 cancelled school for no good reason" on 3/17, or the fact that you printed it.

Maybe the writer lives in a tropical part of Gray or New Gloucester, or perhaps a protective bubble, but South of Town on that morning the roads were dangerously slick. I'm sure the Fire/Rescue personnel on the scene of the Route 100 fatal accident that morning would agree.

But the writer got at least one thing right, to be sure. SAD 15 has indeed enjoyed a great safety and performance record. I'll venture a wild guess that one reason that's the case is that SAD 15 officials have the good sense to call off school when the roads are not safe, like the morning of 3/17 for example.

To Ms Burns: if this means that my kids will have to go to school one extra day this coming June, then I'm grateful to you that they'll be around to do it.

Many thanks,

Maurice Fecteau, Gray