WHS in Top 5 Percent in State

Dear Editor,

On the front page of the April 20, 2015 edition of the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, the headline read “4 Area High School Reap Awards.” It stated that Waitsburg High School received the Overall Excellence award from the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. It went on to discuss the 2014 High Progress awards received by three other area schools and explained that “only 10 percent of high schools receive the High Progress award.”

What the WWUB article failed to explain was that Waitsburg High School, as a recipient of the Overall Excellence award, is r...