CONWAY — As the Kennett Eagles football team prepares to take on the Pembroke Academy Spartans tonight at 7 p.m. at home, a local eye doctor is planning a “peaceful protest” over the school district’s handling of an incident where some players were involved in beating a duck before euthanizing it.
Optometrist Angelique Sawyer, an owner of Conway Eye Care, says she is concerned administrators are not enforcing the student code of conduct. She is using Facebook to organize the protest of the administration, which she said “is failing our students.”
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Teen boys acting poorly with respect to other living beings should be no surprise to any parent of boys. Is the implicit charge that football is by nature something of a brutal sport? If so, make that case and leave the duck out of it. This is an example of unnecessary polaraization at the local level on issues of legitimate concern. Issues of legitimate concern are not resolved by preening one's imagined virtue.
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