LYNNE LYNCH'S MY TURN Reader applauds writer

As a mom, I'd like to thank Lynne Lynch for her brave My Turn in Monday's paper. Being from a public school family, I know the public education system well. I chose to home school my child, partly because of the inherent failures in the system that would ultimately be detrimental to my child - things common to any large operation.

What Mrs. Lynch describes isn't necessarily the fault of the teachers, or the administration, or the school board. It's a society problem and a human nature problem. Society follows the law of entropy - everything tends to chaos, including our societal norms and behaviors. Human nature, on the other hand, usually tries to improve itself. The conflict lies in our nature's desire to seek acceptance over standards which would ensure the betterment of society.

We all do it at some point in life: driving faster on Seattle highways because that's the way they drive there, using profanity in high school because the cool kid does it, bashing on the person who voices an opinion different from yours because it might make your profession and peers look bad.

Mrs. Lynch gave an opinion - based on real-life experience - that will help not only her own children learn to live by high standards, but hopefully all of ours as a result. We can't fix problems unless we acknowledge they exist. She's fixing it by sending her children to a different system someday. I fixed it by teaching my own child. How will the local public school system fix it? Hopefully by acknowledging there's a problem and encouraging all under its authority to achieve high standards.

Thank you, Lynne, for pointing out our opportunity for improvement. Thanks, too, to the Herald for allowing her to share that opinion.

Dani Bolyard

Ephrata