
{"id":4458,"date":"2009-01-08T07:27:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T15:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2009-01-08T07:27:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T15:27:24","slug":"letter-story-needed-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/01\/08\/letter-story-needed-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Story needed facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very distressed about the portrayal of some of the events at Carrboro High School outlined in your piece \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A hard year for the schools.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Although Mr. Thomas was ousted from Carrboro High School, it shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be overlooked that Mr. Thomas worked diligently for Carrboro High. While there were areas in which Mr. Thomas needed to amend in order to build a more cohesive and positive environment, I know he was willing to make those changes. Unfortunately, he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t given the opportunity to learn from those mistakes and to develop a new set of skills.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHowever, we should not dismiss the staggering amount of time and effort Mr. Thomas dedicated to the school.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, in your summary about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Racial slurs used at CHS\u00e2\u20ac\u009d there was a glossing over of an essential fact surrounding this event.<br \/>\nThere is no doubt that racism and racist language is repugnant and debasing. However, the act of violence that occurred subsequently has been dismissed, even lauded as an appropriate act of retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>Neither act of aggression should be tolerated and to continue to only point out only one side of a wrong serves to deepen the divide in our society.<\/p>\n<p><em>M. LLE. Arant<br \/>\nChapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very distressed about the portrayal of some of the events at Carrboro High School outlined in your piece \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A hard year for the schools.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Although Mr. Thomas was ousted from Carrboro High School, it shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be overlooked that Mr. Thomas worked diligently for Carrboro High. While there were areas in which Mr. Thomas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4459,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions\/4459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}