School is sending wrong message

To the editor:

I am appalled that Kelly High School is keeping a student from joining her graduating class simply because she worked harder and met her goals sooner than the rest of the class. Yet the kids who made it by on the skin of their teeth get the privilege to walk that stage.

What is the school trying to tell the students who happen to be high achievers? Lay back and do as little as you can, because it won't pay off anyway? What kind of reward is that? She earned the right to walk that stage. Not only did she earn it, but she excelled in the right to be there when her classmates celebrate the next step into their futures.

I recommend that the school board reconsider its stance on how important education is at their school. Do they want achievers, or do that want lackeys? Let her have her moment of glory. She earned it.

GINA DAVIS, Bangor, Wis.