To the editor:

We are grandparents of one of the boys, and longtime out-of-state subscribers to the Times, that to you chose to photograph and place on the front page of the last week’s paper. We believe that what you did was hurtful, shameful and humiliating.

You owe those boys, and that wonderful team, a retraction and an apology.

That team has played its heart out for their hHigh school and the town of Barrington.

These are unusual and stressful times, especially for those boys and all teenagers, who we feel require special attention.

When you are dealing with such things as photographs and articles that appear to be ok, sometimes after a second look, they are not.

Whether it was accidental or intentional, no one deserves such humiliation.

Michael and Karen Colaneri

West Tisbury, Mass.