HomeMy WebLinkAboutA011 - letter form Ames Community School District in support Ames Community School District LUTHER Assistant Superintendent
Curriculum and Instruction
DAVID L. MOORHEAD PAUL J. SKARDA
Superintendent Administrative Offices
Assistant Superintendent
120 South Kellogg Business and Finance
Ames, Iowa 50010
Phone: (515) 232-3400
March 18, 1980
The Honorable Paul Goodland, Mayor of Ames,
and Ames City Council Members
City Hall
Ames, Iowa 50010
Dear Mayor Goodland and City Council Members :
Please record our support of your efforts to eliminate the open and advertised
sale of drug-related paraphernalia in Ames stores. We share your concern
relative to the damaging effects of drug abuse, and believe that the open sale
of paraphernalia does contribute to an environment which makes no distinction
between drug use and drug abuse.
If one starts, as we do, from the premise that the use of the material for
which the paraphernalia was designed is illegal , then there can be no legal
need for such paraphernalia. On the basis of that logic, then, there is no
legitimacy to differentiating by age the sale of paraphernalia.
It is appropriate to tell our youth, and others not so young, that this society,
in this community, does not condone illegal drug use. You are taking one
visible step to send that message, and we applaud your efforts.
Sincerely,
Luther L. Kiser
Assistant Superintendent for
Curriculum and Instruction
Ralph Farrar, Principal
Ames Senior High School
Don Carlson, Principal
Ames Junior High School
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