To the editor:

I would like to thank Dr. Paul Rush for recently standing up against the ridiculous notion proposed to the school board concerning the Junior Marshall program at SHS.

He is absolutely right in saying that this change (accepting the top 10 GPA's from each academy) would be lowering our standards, and it is not upholding the "rigor" we are to be striving for. Haven't we messed up enough at SHS? Yes we have. This would be another slip down the slope to disaster, and we are not far from that now. The fact that an academy (or maybe more than one) would not have a single student with a 3.7 GPA is proof that this SLC experiment is a failure.

Now the administrators want to lower the Junior Marshall standards so the schools don't look so inadequate. Give me a break

The real problem with the SLC's is not in the concept itself, but in the hasty and sloppy implementation with which it was put into place at SHS. Anyone who has a child under the age of 18 should be very, very interested in what is happening to our high school. Don't put it off on the parents who have children there now and think it is their problem. Oh no. If you have a child that might possibly attend SHS in the next 18 years, you should be very concerned.

Keep up the good work Dr. Rush.

Lori Henson

Scotland County