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Dear Connie Schultz, I was so incredibly dissappointed by your column bashing Hudson students. Not being there, I can only take your word about the student's behavior, but I have always been very impressed with the good manners that the students have shown me when I have been at the High School. We moved here from Maple Hts seven years ago because of the school system. Many of my old neighbors assumed it was because Maple Hts. was turning into a largely black community and we are white. I remember laughing as I looked out the window at my youngest son playing with his new best friends, a Black child and a Korean child. Oh yes, It is Lilly White in Hudson! Also, although Hudson does have many beautiful homes that people worked hard to afford, Hudson also has a very large "middle class" section. My family owns an ordinary split level home that I can only wish would be worth $300,000. I was so used to the disparaging remarks I got from people about living in Maple Heights. Sometimes I think its even worse living in Hudson. Its the prejudice that any person who lives in Hudson is a filthy rich snob who has no manners. Perhaps you aren't used to kids that were raised in enthusiastic politically active homes that can't wait to make a difference in the world and definately have their own opinions. I have always really admired your columns and I find it disappointing to have to look way down from that pedestal that you fell from.

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It's a shame how you throw around your statistics and stereotypes about a town that hears them all too much. You are essentially enabling people in Hudson, especially rowdy senior boys (who I should add only represent a fraction of the students in the high school and the community), to fulfill the stereotype you give them. Students at any speech will make comments or be disrupting, no matter how much money you think their parents make or what their houses are worth. It adds no dramatic effect to your article to mention what background "the median" of Hudson people come from. It is just that, the MEDIAN. People are less fortunate and more fortunate all around this town, this state, and the country. People are also rude while others are speaking all over the world- money has nothing to do with that. What truly is rude, is someone who tries to encourage younger people to vote but turns around to bash them because of your impression from such a small group. Your false generalizations disgust me and it's no suprise people disrespected you because you hypocritically disrespected them. I also question why you would even want to waste your precious time speaking to a school you find so horrible.

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Dear Connie Schultz: I saw you on Charlie Rose Show last night (3-4-08) and was stunned by your blind support and endorsement for Senator Hillary Clinton. Senator Clinton supported NAFTA, no matter how much Senator Clinton tries to deny and or spin it and NAFTA is directly responsible for putting so many Americans, especially Ohioans, out of work. And you support a candidate who put so many Ohioans out of work and literally out in the cold? Obviously, Mrs. Shultz, you make more than enough money so you don't have to worry about making a house payment, losing your hone or buying heating fuel. So you support Senator Clinton, who is directly responsible for making Ohioans jobless and homeless, as a consequence of NAFTA? Amazing. Senator Clinton voted for the war without even reading the bill. Recently, Senator Clinton also voted or the Lieberman amendment allowing Bush to bomb Iran whenever he feels like it. And this is a candidate you support. Voters have spoken and their votes clearly state that they want Obama as the, nominee, not Senator Clinton, yet Senator Clinton refuses to respect the will of the voters by now stating she "morally deserves" the nomination and will discount the voters, even though Obama leads in the popular vote and elected delegates. So much for respect for the Democratic process. Shame on you, Connie for supporting Senator Clinton who obviously doesn't support the Democratic voting process. You must be making more than $250,000.00/yr. to be a Clinton supporter. If Senator Clinton steals the nomination, I will not vote in the general election as a way of protesting Senator Clinton's refusal to respect and count my vote. This isn't about "Hillary Hating" it is about respect for the Democratic process that Senator Clinton clearly has no respect for.

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Dear Connie Schultz, I read your letter about Hudson, and my high school, Hudson High School. I don't think the stereotype in your article is correct. Not everyone in Hudson is a spoiled rich brat who doesn't have to work for what they have in life. To support my opinion, I am going to write about my life. I have been going to Hudson City Schools since kindergarten, and I have lived in Hudson my entire life. No, I'm not a straight A student, and no I don't participate in any costly after school activities. My parents were divorced when I was five years old; my dad was an abusive drug addict. I do not live in a huge $309,328 dollar house; I live in a trailer on the edge of town. My mom is having surgery, and my family is worried because we don't know how we are going to pay for it, and pay our bills. My mom works two part time jobs to support my family. She works very hard every day and is always worried about losing her job. To help support my family, I also have a job. My mom is my hero; she is a single mom, sacrificing her life for her children to one day have the chance to go to college. No one in my family has ever gone to college, let alone graduate high school. My mom has fought very hard to give my siblings and I a chance to graduate high school, go to college, and do something with our lives so we won't end up like she did. Because I go to Hudson City Schools, and because Hudson gives so many scholarships to deserving students, I might actually have a chance to be the first person in my family to graduate high school and go to college. I don't think you have your facts right about everyone in Hudson, because I know other families also like mine, and they are not rude, they are not spoiled, they work very hard for everything they have in life, and nothing is handed to them. Thank you for taking the time to read my article out of your busy day. I really wish you would reconsider your opinion on the people of Hudson.

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should i send that to her? i really think i should.