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Parents, not outsiders

Your article "Montgomery parents seek more say on sex education" (Metropolitan, Sunday) ends with a disturbing comment by the only Republican on the board: that the new curriculum will be constructed "within the professional component of the system, instead of as a negotiation between outside groups."

The parents who are members of the Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum (CRC) should be outraged to be classified as one of the "outside groups." The resolution from the county Board of Education states that the school system will "retain the sole right and responsibility for determining the content of all curriculum." Didn't the board hear the successful "we demand to be heard" cry the first time around? Are not parents part of the school system?

The CRC should be so concerned that their long-term solution should be to change the "lone Republican" on the school board to ensure that "outside groups" are continually represented with the proud title of "parent."

BILL NETHERLAND

Severna Park, Md.

Reject CAFTA

The latest editorial in support of the Central American Free Trade Agreement ("Approve CAFTA," Friday), reads more like an appeal for expanding our foreign aid to the region than approving a trade deal.