[i]"Jerry it looks to me that a majority of folks do not feel like softballjerk/chippingaway who joined the forum yesterday to support that point of view, and for some reason also have posts with similar grammer, sentence structure and reasoning. [/i]"
1. truth is truth regardless if I joined yesterday or last year. I have said nothing to bash TNL and wish to clarify that.
2. its easy to disregard a statement when you can assume that the source is somehow a "hater" - not so-many of my daughters bff's play for TNL
3. its even easier to couple similar - but not the same comments and get deffensive and disregard a valid point.
for the record here is what I urged the parents and TNL board to do
a. take immediate action - they did
b. investigate independently - they did and are doing that
c. keep the organization going - they did and are going to
i have had too much experience dealing with these situations as a denominational leader in the church community. The goal of every comment i made was to keep the girls safe, and the effectiveness of the organization as strong as possible.
May the parents and board members of TNL be wise beyond their years and may the girls truly rise above all this.
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