An OPEN LETTER to … Everyone

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For once, good advice can be found on social media. It’s difficult to believe, certainly, but it is true thanks to Debbie Joseph’s August 4th state update.

It reads:

“Let’s begin practicing this now:

  • When a friend says she is sending her kids back to school:
  • Our response: Man! I am so proud of you! I know that wasn’t an easy choice to make.
  • When a friend says she is doing virtual learning with her kids.
  • Our response: Man! I am so proud of you! I know that wasn’t an easy choice to make.
  • When a friend says she is home schooling her kids:
  • Our response: Man! I am so proud of you! I know that wasn’t an easy choice to make.

ALWAYS BE KIND. We’re ALL trying to do our best in the most difficult times any of us have likely faced in our lives. ALWAYS BE KIND.”

It really is that simple.

Mothers and fathers are faced with a very difficult decision concerning their children and the beginning of the 2020-2021 academic year. Do they send them to the same school buildings they were booted out of in March in the name of safety from Covid-19? Or do they opt for a continued quarantine and virtual learning?

No matter, let’s respect.

Sincerely,

We The People

Steve Novotney
Steve Novotney
Steve Novotney has been a professional journalist for 33 years, working in print for weekly, daily, and bi-weekly publications, writing for a number of regional and national magazines, host baseball-related talks shows on Pittsburgh’s ESPN, and as a daily, all-topics talk show host in the Wheeling and Steubenville markets since 2004. Novotney is the co-owner, editor, and co-publisher of LEDE News, and is the host of “Novotney Now,” a daily program that airs Monday-Friday from 3-6 p.m. on River Talk 100.1 & 100.9 FM.

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