On Tuesday, June 19, your headline informed us that the city was stunned by the low graduation rate. Where are the parents? Why aren’t they stunned? Without parents’ cooperation, you cannot make a child learn.

I am not a teacher but am the parent of seven college graduates.

Barbara Nitardy

Sackets Harbor

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