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The heated controversy over the school budget will continue not only day to day but year to year as long as hostilities distract people from seeking a workable solution.
When an issue becomes as polarized as this one has, the chances are slim that either side is listening to what the other has to say. After hurling its arguments at the other, each party retreats to gather ammunition for another attack. All rebuttals are dismissed as nonsense. As a result, relevant points made on both sides are lost.
If a workable solution is to be found, the concerns of both sides will have to be addressed-by each other. How can this be done?
Barney O’Meara points the way in his letter to the editor this week. He begins his letter by noting that the differing parties in this issue are not as far apart as the intensity of the argument suggests. “This issue has become so polarized that we have forgotten that Rappahannock’s citizens share common goals,” O’Meara writes.
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