The withdrawal of the plan for a new Tisbury School was signed on behalf of the town. The state funds earmarked for the project have been revoked. The building and school committees, the selectmen, other boards, and the public must now decide how to bring the school up to the modern demands of today’s education. The group must also address the separate but not equal issue that is a civil rights stain remaining on the town of Tisbury. When President Johnson signed the Architectural Barriers Act into law in August of 1968, he characterized barriers to access as a failure on the part of government that perpetuated “cruel discrimination.”

Our town’s government has certainly lived up to this statement from 50 years ago.

Ralph Friedman

Vineyard Haven