Lumping - easy and wrong

It’s tempting sometimes to lump people into easy categories. Stereotypes exist for a reason. But if you learn anything from this issue of The Star, it should be this: Labeling groups of “those people” as this type or that one is just pure laziness.

In case you were tempted to do that after reading about some horrible threats allegedly made by some students at a local school toward other students (see the story on the front page), you should realize that the story about the king and queen of the senior prom (page 3) is also about kids at the local school, and they’ll make you proud.

The worst and the best of our inclinations can arise in the same place, among the same crowd. But people should never rush to judgement based on any imagined grouping of our fellow humans.

When we do so about people as young as those in high school, it can weigh on them for the rest of their lives. And if any group doesn’t deserve such drag on their progress through life, it’s the students at Lake Roosevelt Jr/Sr High School or any school.

Scott Hunter

editor and publisher