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Wakefield
and the Lynns
To the Editor:
Having spoken to you for only a few minutes by phone, I am perplexed as to how reporter’s ethics would allow you to write about me such a damaging editorial that is so patently lacking in objectivity. You will recall in your “interview” with me that I repeatedly declined to answer leading questions hoping not to prejudice parent-mandated negotiations? What puzzles me is how you, like the majority of the board, a newcomer who never knew Bill Lynn, let alone his philosophy or style of education, could so glibly dismiss and denigrate one who did. The following facts seem to have made no impression on your rather selective thought process: I cofounded the school with Bill Lynij; indeed our whole marriage was predicated on the founding of a school. Not only have I taught there every year from its inception 18 years ago, even while bearing four of my six children, but also Bill and I spent two or more hours nightly discussing education in general and the school in particular over dinner, both putting off the inevitable paper-grading. On Bill’s death, even in the horrendous weeks before, I assumed a direction of the school that
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