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Letters to the Editor

APS board dysfunction on full display

Once again, at the April 28 APS board meeting, the dysfunction of some APS school board members was on full agonizing display. Not for the first time, the issue was about “Bathroom Policy.” To recap: APS has a bathroom use policy that, according to students, teachers, and administrators, is ...

APS board is micromanaging issues

A small group in the community is determined to politicize and hijack our public schools for their hate-based, ignorant beliefs. At April’s board meeting, students, teachers, and members of the community spoke on concerns about board members’ obsession with bathrooms and adopting policies ...

Protect child care and Head Start at all costs

The U.S. Congress must reject President Donald Trump’s plans to make disastrous cuts to child care and eliminate Head Start! We have witnessed a barrage of attacks on child care and Head Start by President Trump and his administration since he took office. Most recently, leaked details of ...

This is the 21st century, and youth are DEI

Historical May days: Nazi Germany surrenders WWII May 7, 1945; Brown vs. Board of Education May 17, 1954, International Day for Biological Diversity May 22, 1993, and of course a mirriad of everyday fun things that Americans love to celebrate: Mother’s Day! We celebrate these ways of life and ...

Proposed bathroom policy isn’t about privacy

To the Editor, At a time when Alpena High School students are asking for real leadership — to raise test scores and improve their education — certain members of the APS Board are instead fixated on where students use the bathroom. Let’s be honest: the proposed bathroom policy isn’t ...

APS lost control of their board meeting Monday

APS should be ashamed of the example they set for their own students attending the last board meeting. Anna Meinhart and David Rabbideau lost control of the meeting by allowing clapping, cheering, booing, and even allowing personal attacks regarding board members by calling out school board ...