LETTER: Jara isn’t the only problem

On Oct. 28, a Review-Journal editorial called for the Clark County School District Board of Trustees to terminate Superintendent Jesus Jara’s employment contract. Later that evening, by a ballot of 4-3, the committee voted to region Mr. Jara. The editorial listed galore failures of Mr. Jara’s three-plus twelvemonth tenure, highlighted by highly mediocre world achievement, lowering grading and graduation standards and the distant learning catastrophe during the pandemic.

While I tin recognize the determination to region Mr. Jara, I consciousness powerfully that helium unsocial is not to blasted for the continued problems astatine the district.

The territory website states that the Board of Trustees “is a dedicated radical of assemblage leaders who are … dedicated to ensuring the occurrence of each pupil successful the territory done clear, concise absorption to the superintendent.” Their Vision Statement is clear: “All students advancement successful schoolhouse and postgraduate prepared to win and lend successful a divers planetary society.”

So I ask: Were the trustees not alert of the highly mediocre trial scores? Were they kept successful the acheronian astir Mr. Jara’s questionable decisions? Did they enactment teacher evaluations oregon did they succumb to the teachers national tenure demands? The answers of “no, nary and no” intelligibly bespeak the trustees person failed successful their responsibilities. Isn’t it besides clip to region the trustees and regenerate them with a responsible, experienced and business-oriented board?