Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

I am writing in concern to the Superintendent Mark Broderson comments about the opening the schools this fall (June 25 paper).

The comments on page 12 about the students being called “bubbles” or “herds”.

As I thought about the word herds is that our young men and women are not cattle, sheep, goats or pigs. On scripture in the Bible describes pigs who ran into the sea as a herd of swine.

I don’t think “herds” is a very good choice of words to call students. Why not groups of students.

“Herd” in the dictionary describes it as a number of animals (which studen...