Letter: Such talk no way to reunite Little Compton

Posted 9/9/15

To the editor:

In the school I taught at some years ago, our Head, knowing that opinions among teachers often arise, urged us to “disagree agreeably,” meaning that we should stick to the issues at hand, avoiding harsh language and …

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Letter: Such talk no way to reunite Little Compton

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To the editor:

In the school I taught at some years ago, our Head, knowing that opinions among teachers often arise, urged us to “disagree agreeably,” meaning that we should stick to the issues at hand, avoiding harsh language and personal attacks.

With this in mind, I wish to address part of a letter about plagiarism in the Times of September 3. “We have never seen such a divided town in decades,” writes the Board of Directors of the Little Compton Taxpayers Association.

Certainly there is animosity. But, so far from trying to resolve the issues by reason or compromise, the association calls their opponents a “wolf pack,” and a "crowd of holier-than-thou sanctimonious jackals” building a gallows from which to hang the principal.

If our town is to be less divided, let us all tone down such uncivil rhetoric.

Caleb Woodhouse

Little Compton

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