I participated in public discourse by writing a letter to the editor of a newspaper a month ago. I think that writing a letter was one of the most formal ways to get my opinion out there. In the letter, I complained about having classes whenever the weather was awful. I did this because I was upset that we had classes whenever we shouldn't have. There was too much snow and ice for everyone to get to the campus safely. There are a lot of commuters that go to my college and some couldn't even get out of their driveway. It made me upset that these students' safety weren't even considered. The school's decision to have classes affected everyone who was forced to attend the college. I was not the only one that was mad that we had class those days, either. Someone else also wrote a letter to the editor about the same thing that I did.
Since I wrote a letter to the editor, he at least knew how I felt about the college's decisions. Even though the letter was written after we already had to go to classes, he could think about students' safety the next time that it happens. Hopefully, the school realizes the dangers of having class whenever a lot of the students here are commuters. It at least made me feel better to write to the editor and get what I was feeling off of my chest.
I chose to write to the editor because I was mad that I had to go to class. As dangerous as the roads were and yet classes were still in session! I wanted to make sure that the school knew that I disagreed with their actions. If someone I knew would have wrecked coming to campus on one of those awful, snowy days, I would have blamed it on the school.
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