Jack Stephenson

To the editor,

I'm glad for the responses I got on issue of school bus seat belts. All seem to agree that seat belts MUST be required, but so far some seem to think I wrote things I never did, or intended. Are those responses reaction to guilty conscience.

I never wrote that our students are computer-game crazed, lazy, or fat! I never suggested putting sidewalks on all our roads. I never wrote that it was wrong for people to live where THEY thought it was too far for their children to walk to school.

As I now guess at it, none of you are at all concerned with the discipline problem on school busses, or the cost of operating them, but at least ALL seem concerned with safety. Okay, you feel guilty that your kid is crazed with computer games instead of using the computer for useful education. Okay, you feel guilty that your kid's overweight. So, do something useful about it.

As I've observed, most Gilford students are more active, more intelligent, more helpful to others, and much more fit than in most other communities, and ALL of that is due to having much better parents.

So let's get back to the real issue, mandating use of seat belts on our school busses!

Jack Stephenson

Gilford