Suspended from Cascade High School for 10 days, underground newspaper editor David Whittemore knows he broke the rules. “I pretty much got what I deserved,” the teen told a Herald reporter last week.

As Saints quarterback Drew Brees has taken significant criticism this week for equating kneeling during the national anthem with disrespecting the country, not everyone thinks that criticism is fair.

Readers debated whether Lehigh Valley colleges are overreacting by shutting down on-campus instruction. “I work in a hospital, and we all think it’s ridiculous,” one said. “Universities will be damned ...