Today’s staff editorial on the Valenti sign

Today’s editorial praised the changes coming for the Valenti School. As many of you know, little has been done for the school in many years. Welcome Wilson, the chair of the regents, is charging ahead in changing the name of the school and raising money to enlarge the building. These accomplishments would seem to overshadow an aesthetic quibble over the new sign. As children we were used to being scolded for things that didn’t seem to matter that much. 

Opinion pages seem to be an opportunity to scold people about right and wrong, good and bad.  But we’ve worked all semester on  writing opinion pieces that move information and stories forward. The backing on that sign has a good story behind it. It’s designed so it can be take down in January when the work on the building begins and a welcoming entryway will be built. That’s  the story.

What you don’t want to become is a scold, like George Will, who wrote a piece recently in which he denounced blue jeans.