Some Adults Need

To Return To Middle School

To the Editor:

As a 13 year-old in Newtown, I can’t say I know much about the Planning and Zoning board or the technicalities surrounding the horse farm issues that are taking up so much negative space in The Newtown Bee. One thing I do know is that there are adults in Newtown that are setting a very poor example for children.

Meg Maurer is my best friend Tara’s mother. She voted no on an issue regarding horse farms, and as a result is being forced off of the task force set up to further research the issue. Is it biased to disagree with someone? Isn’t it more impartial to have only people who have a special interest in horses on the task force? I have always thought that boards were supposed to have various people on them to represent everyone in town, even those with a different opinion. If that is true, then Meg Maurer is only doing her job.

The Newtown public school spends a lot of time teaching conflict resolution and I don’t recall bringing yourself up by dragging someone else down as one of the suggested solutions. The Newtown Middle School reopens next week; maybe those who have made and distributed the negative (and untrue) flyers about Mrs Mauer can get an appointment with the restitution counselor.

Sincerely,

Abby Atkinson

5 Pocono Road, Newtown                 August 20, 2001