The truth is hard to find

By Roy Knox

When I first heard about Amy Lacey, the middle school principal in Hempstead, I thought what a terrible injustice. Lacey was suspended and her contract was not going to be renewed because it was reported she announced over the intercom system that Spanish was not to be spoken during class time. That seemed plausible to me; there have been many cases where students have been removed from class for being “disruptive” a word that covers many a sin, from hair too long to skirts too short, so any unauthorized talking, no matter the language would fall into that category and it didn’t out of the ordinary. So as I tried to do a little research on the incident but what I found was no “story” was the same. I have read where she had banned the speaking of Spanish anywhere on the campus. I read in another article where she was quoted saying “if you can’t speak English, we don’t want you.” I read 10 different articles, with 10 different explanations of what happened,  some were small internet news sites while others were major news carriers. Who can you trust? One very liberal site claimed “this is close to being a hate crime,” while an ultra-conservative site “this is the first step in trying to make Spanish the official language of the United States.”  What do I know, why is a middle school principal determining school policy?

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