State fails its children

Fri., Nov. 16, 2012

What were you thinking?

All that money wasted on educating our students on the health effects of smoking; millions of dollars down the drain. Drug education – toss it out! We just told our kids we were wrong, using drugs for recreation is OK.

We are also telling our students that the drug pushers win, because it’s too hard to arrest and convict them.

Washington, you have failed our kids.

Linda Crooks

Oakesdale, Wash.

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