April 7, 2013
Dear Most Honorable Mayor Kennedy,
Because my e mails are blocked from the Lynn Public
Schools, I am writing to you in hopes that you in your role as Chairman of the
Lynn School Committee you could convey to the superintendent or any other
appropriate person my offer to speak on the matter of brain damage to the
students that could result from blows to the head. Schools should be about education, not prosecution.
In the past you have graciously appointed me to the Lynn
Disability Commission which I was elected chairman of for a year before I
resigned. I was also a board member of the West Virginia Head Injury
Foundation, Inc. and also served as chairman of my districts Consumer Advisory
Committee of West Virginia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation.
For fifteen years I was a direct care worker for the
Massachusetts Division of Developmental Disabilities before retiring due to
arthritis, While in college, I suffered a brain injury that left me comatose
for eleven days with multiple residual disabilities. Overcoming the many challenges I faced is
something I would be happy to share with the students who engaged or witnessed
these dangerous games.
Hopefully you join me in my worry about the serious
nature of this apparent foolishness and child’s play that flirts with tragedy. Please
feel free to contact me about any way I can help. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Stanley H. Wotring, Jr.
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