Parents of slain students slam school board over inaction
raised and gone. She’s not our parent and played no part in the memories we wanted to honor. Although Sylvia was a good wife to our dad, she did her best to erase all traces of our mother from Dad’s memory and from his home. Were we wrong? She has rebuffed our attempts to explain our benign motivations.
CONFUSED: You weren’t wrong, but it would have been better had you discussed your plans for the plaque with Sylvia before donating it. That way, you would have been able to explain to her the reason why she wouldn’t be on it. She may still be grieving the loss of your father, so try to understand her feelings.
And by the way, it is not unusual – or out of line – for a second wife to make her husband’s home “her own,” so don’t hold it against her.
The parents of students killed in the Parkland massacre slammed the Broward County School Board on Thursday for what they called a lack of decisiveness in the months since the attack.
“We have focused on the issues, but the School Board has not provided answers,” said Tony Montalto, whose daughter, Gina, was among the 17 killed. “Where is the accountability?”
Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter, Jaime, was killed, called a recent school board meeting a “mockery” for its arguments among board members.
“They blame each other for decisions that are made and unmade,” he said. – Appeal-democrat news services