Letter: The truth, his way

Editor, Daily News:

Editorial Page Editor Jeff Lytle stated that precision in your reporting of facts is all-important.

I will remind you that your job as editor is not just facts, but truth!

Truth has become a subjective element in our lives. It is what anyone wants it to be for themselves. In the Immokalee High School debacle the debate gets very cloudy because facts are skewed to meet the prevailing truth of the illustrious grand "subjectiver" — one who emphasizes subjectivity — Collier Schools Superintendent Ray Baker.

The truth being promulgated by this "subjectiver" is that Manny Touron is a good principal in Immokalee.

How can you be a good principal and allow this to knowingly happen — with over-age students in the school and playing competitive sports against the rules?

So "good" has become relative to situational ethics.

Baker is applying the reflective thinking of the great founder of modern educational philosophy, the right Rev. Dr. John Dewey.

However, you are not bound by this philosophy unless Baker has "the goods" on your acquiescence to his philosophy.

The ultimate need for new leadership in Immokalee is to provide the necessary hope for athletes who will not be entitled to compete for college scholarships in the normal process, who will lose ambition to live out their dreams and who will struggle against further discrimination on another playing field.

Your writers are known to have believed school authorities in the past and deprived the public of the truth. This is provable. So, I'm not surprised that you have taken to mollycoddle your friend, Baker.

Naples is a place where those in the know control what the know is all about.

Erich Abraham , Naples