
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, June 21, 1993                   TAG: 9306220356
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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THE HOPE BEHIND ADDISON'S BRICK WALLS

THANKS for Mary Bishop's series about the "Alternative Education program" at Addison Middle School. She should be commended on this masterpiece.

Roanoke needed to see some place of hope for our children. They needed to see the good and stop going by hearsay. There are problems, but even if we all stayed in our own houses and never came out, we would still have problems to face.

These articles brought to light why our young people act or react as they do, why they talk and carry themselves in the fashion they do. We all have reasons why we are what we are and who we are, and people need to understand each other to be able to accept others for who they are.

This series spread light on a building that people labeled as the "bad place," which is contrary to the hope going on inside its brick walls.

Hats off to every student, director, teacher, bus driver and to all who, on a daily basis, push for and speak for the young men and women at the center. MARLENE STARKEY ROANOKE

by CNB