FORKS — Community members are expected to speak out tonight against Quillayute Valley School District Superintendent Frank Walter’s decision to let a Forks High School senior who killed a dog play on the Spartans baseball team.
Walter’s decision cuts short a year’s athletic suspension begun last June.
“To have (the student) represent the community of Forks as well as Forks High School is not a good idea,” Patt Doyle, owner of Pampurred Pet Care, a Forks pet-sitting business, said Monday afternoon.
Doyle, who is running an e-mail campaign against the decision, plans to state her case when the Quillayute Valley School Board meets at 6 p.m. today in the Administration Board Room, 411 S. Spartan Ave.
“If there are community members who are upset with my decision, I certainly accept a discussion of my decision or my judgment,” Walter said Monday evening.
“The part I’m really uncomfortable with is in any way going after one of the students in our schools.”
The 17-year-old, whose name is not published because he is a juvenile, pleaded guilty to Clallam County charges of first-degree animal cruelty and third-degree theft on May 15, 2002, according to court documents.
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