Dear Editors of the weekly,

Although I am not a supporter of Trump, I would like to say that the Thanksgiving weekly edition was pressing an excessive amount of anti-Trump material. Just on the first page there is an illustration of someone crying while reading the word “Trump.” I believe that this is very offensive to the Trump supporters who attend Parker school. What if a young student got a hold of this newspaper and showed it to their pro-Trump parents? The kid would ask why the person is crying because Trump won, and wonder if their parents’ opinion is wrong. Now I am not saying that would happen exactly the way I told it, but it is still a possibility.

I understand that Parker is a liberal school but that does not mean that the school’s newspaper should press these ideas so harshly on the students reading them. A school’s newspaper should tell more about school, and not as much about politics. While reading the newspaper, I read “Emma’s Dilemma,” which I thought was a great addition in the newspaper. It gave reasons that people are upset that Trump is President. However there was not enough of “the world has not ended,” “he is already going back on things he has said,” and “if he is President, that means people like him enough to vote for him.” The only thing that scratched that surface was the quote from Calvin Johnson, and something Emma wrote explaining that people should not hate all Trump supporters.

Moving on to the “Thanksgiving Revision” article, I think it is amazing that Parker kids can realize that Parker would get rid of Thanksgiving because we would somehow make it “racist” and “offensive.” However, the concluding idea that the Pilgrims’ thanksgiving is not the one we have is a great idea. I think that if we applied this way of thinking to more places, it would benefit the community. For example, going back to the Trump issue, some may see it as a terrible thing, but others see it as an opportunity.

Finally I would like to acknowledge the illustration on page 15 that depicts the words “new perspective” trying to penetrate the “Parker bubble.” This is an amazing illustration because we acknowledge that we are living in a bubble. This might be the year we should pop that bubble. If we live in that bubble of disappointment with the new President-elect then we will never learn as much as we could about the opinions of his supporters outside the bubble. Let’s pop the bubble now, and get the new perspective on how the next 4 years might go, not questioning why and/or how this happened.

Sincerely,

Olivia Garg ’19

P.S. I love the Hillary cartoon on the last page