Letter: Wrong, wrong, wrong

Editor, Daily News:

Adults knowingly forging documents and registering for high school, adults knowingly trying out for high school sports teams, adults knowingly accepting high school athletic awards — and adults knowing this information and doing nothing about it.

This is so so wrong on so many levels, I do not know where to begin.

While I have heard many excuses as to why this situation occurred and why it was not promptly reported once realized, I have not heard real conversation about the long-term implications of this unfortunate situation.

The students of Immokalee High School, past present and future, are the real victims.

The Immokalee students have been stripped of their dignity and pride. Some students did not make teams because adults were playing on them; some students had to compete against adult athletes; and all future student athletes will now be punished for the mistakes of a few, misguided adults, their supposed role models.

Who are the real victims in all of this? The students at Immokalee High School and those soccer players at other Collier County schools.

Most disturbing is that the Daily News boys soccer player of the year is not a boy, but rather a man. The true boys soccer player of the year has been robbed of his rightful award, and that's a shame.

Clearly this was all about winning. If not, why were these men permitted to participate on these sports teams?

And what about a GED? That is what adults who never earned their high school diplomas do to earn them.

If these individuals did indeed receive a high school diploma the question is, should they be allowed to keep them?

Although they were the persons who perpetrated the deception, they were the only ones not hurt by all of this.

Kim Kelley , Naples