(Delivered on behalf of the Liberty High School Parent/Teacher/Student Association to the Bedford County School Board.)
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Bedford County School Board . . .
I stand before you today to tell you what I think about Liberty High School’s blocked scheduling program. To state it simply, I love it.
(Written and presented for Mrs. Wingfield’s English 11AS class at Liberty High School.)
Introduction
It was late the night of June 4, 1980. Catherine Johnson was walking down an alley in New York City, heading home from a night at the disco. She never made it to her destination. On the way, she was brutally raped and murdered. She never saw who it was that took her life. The next day, her friends and her family reported her missing. The police found her battered and bloody body in a dumpster, only a block from her home. After a brief investigation, the police arrested a man by the name Shawn Whitely and charged him with the crime. He had no alibi and witnesses placed him in the area at the time. He was held and charges were pressed. Several months later, he was brought to trial and convicted of first degree murder. His punishment, death. For the next 10 years, he waited in agony through the appeals process on death row until finally, to the delight of Catherine’s family, he was executed in mid 1990.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
