A Jefferson County School security vehicle blocks the driveway entrance to Standley Lake High School, which closed due to a high number of teacher absences, on Sept. 19. (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post)
Re: “No anonymity in Jeffco teacher sick-out,” Nov. 10 editorial.
Your editorial lauds a parent who sought to obtain the names of his daughter’s teachers who called in sick during the recent uproar in Jeffco. To what end?
You also declare that the teachers who called in sick “presumably weren’t sick in the first place.” I admire, in the absence of access to any medical information, your omniscience in these matters. You seem to be untroubled in branding an entire group of people, none of whom has been charged or convicted of any legal offense, of being unreliable troublemakers.
You fail to appreciate the gravity of your position. You are, in effect, advocating the creation of a high-tech black list. What you approve of is to have individuals access, compile and distribute the names of people who may have done things which they do not like.
One would have thought that a newspaper, of all institutions, would understand the “chilling” aspects of your position. Apparently you do not.
Guy Wroble, Denver
This letter was published in the Nov. 13 edition.
