BUTT OUT, SCHOOL

People do need to stay out of everyone else's business. True, this is
a small town and everyone does know everyone and what they do. But
still, there is no need to "monitor" other people's children. What we
do is between our parents and us.

Now the whole school is going to know what you are doing, and that is
just not right. It should be your parents' job to punish you, not the
school's. When the school starts to take the role of parents, that's
when we need to draw the line. The school needs to butt out and stop
worrying about what we do.

TORI RUTLEDGE

Editor's Note: These letters were submitted by
students in Melanie Ragland's journalism class at
Hawley High School in response to Jim Parker's Jan. 24
letter to the editor, "Hawley drug testing invasion of privacy."