Editor:
We at the Berks County Community Foundation are shocked by the shameful comments made at a local school board meeting regarding students from the Antietam School District (“Resident’s comments on students condemned,” Reading Eagle, Dec. 14). These comments are a reminder of the need to value all students in our community and to recognize that potential is distributed evenly but opportunity is not.
The challenges facing Antietam are unprecedented in the history of our commonwealth. Rather than cast aspersions and make derogatory comments about our children, we as a community need to find a way to provide opportunity for these students after a key school building was made uninhabitable by previously unimaginable flooding.
We condemn in the sharpest language possible the comments made at the Oley Valley meeting and urge our entire community to condemn them as well.
Kevin Murphy
President, Berks County Community Foundation
Source: Berkshire mont