At some point during the past few years, the men and women who make up the Joplin Globe's Editorial Board decided to shed their coats, ties, and pantsuits, and exchanged them for cheerleader uniforms and pom-pons.
Whatever the chief administrators for the city of Joplin and the Joplin R-8 School District decide to do is the approach that is right, no matter what the consequences.
The Globe has every right to express that opinion on its editorial pages; that is what the First Amendment is all about.
But when you use your news pages to back up your editorial page views, you are doing a disservice to your readers and to the truth.
