Letters

To the Editor:

The article "Equal Access Law at Center of Utah Flap" (March 6, 1996) failed to meet your publication's typically high standards of objectivity, solid analysis, and accuracy.

Taking a "Chicken Little" approach to the important issue of the proper implementation of the federal Equal Access Act, the article appeared to urge school officials across the country to close down all extracurricular student activities in order to avoid a problem that, upon close reading of the article, has occurred at only a handful of high schools over the past decade. The source of this Draconian legal advice is a principal who lost 8-1 in the U.S. Supreme Court on another of his interpretations of the Equal Access Act. Surely your readers deserve a more thorough...