What is Chinese immersion school trying to hide?

Why did the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School bar the Gazette from its graduation?

Does the school’s administration seriously expect the public to believe that no room could be found for a single reporter and perhaps a photographer at the event? Parents wanted the proceedings to be kept “private”? Why?

As the Gazette story reminds readers, this school is a publicly funded institution. The public has every right to know what goes on there, good and bad. Could it be that school administrators are simply displeased with some of the negative press their school has gotten over the years? Is this a reprisal?

One expects this kind of behavior toward the free press by the government in Beijing. It is wholly inappropriate here.

When a public institution tries to bar the press from important events — like a school graduation — one can only wonder what that institution is trying to hide.

Alex Kent

Amherst

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