Letter to the Editor: District's Book Donation Refusal Begs Answer

To the editor:

Just once I would like a clear, concise answer from a administrator or school board member as to why my offer of 40 free copies of "Saucon Secrets, Volume I, A History of Hellertown and Lower Saucon Township" was turned down twice, once in 2010 and once in 2011.

In these lean budgetary years, is a bit of local history insignificant, or can't the history department fit it into their vast curriculum of teaching current ultra-liberal social values?

Could this be why a college-bound senior did not know who became the first president under the Constitution or where the first home in Hellertown is located? I should have asked a follow-up question: "In what year did the War of 1812 begin?"

Are facts no longer considered important?

Is this why

Incidentally, does one administrator know in what year Hellertown became a borough? I'll give a clue. .

With all due respect,

Lee Weidner

Hellertown