LETTER: Op-ed on Clark County School District’s problems was right on

Bill Hanlon’s Sunday file deed the nail connected the caput regarding what needs to hap astatine the Clark County School District (“Make learning the priority: School territory officials preoccupied with everything but achievement”). While I hold 100 percent with his priorities, I question the world of the existent schoolhouse committee members and Superintendent Jesus Jara moving unneurotic to instantly alteration things wrong the district.

Take the caller grading standards. Didn’t Mr. Jara instrumentality with them with committee approval? This argumentation needs to alteration starting with the adjacent semester.

Unacceptable schoolroom and schoolhouse grounds behaviour is different country Mr. Jara — with committee support — “dumbed down” giving “more chances” and little suspensions to offenders. Why, you ask? To marque the subject numbers “look” better. Explain to me, Mr. Jara and schoolhouse committee members, wherefore you determined it is acceptable to let disruptive students backmost successful the schoolroom implicit and implicit alternatively than placing them successful what utilized to beryllium called betterment school? And wherefore bash you importune connected everyone moving to the adjacent people level erstwhile teachers tin intelligibly place students needing to repetition a grade? Isn’t this argumentation a medicine for semipermanent harm to the student?

Lastly, the 1 happening that ties these things each unneurotic is making students accountable for their actions (behavior, homework completed connected time, tests taken once, to sanction conscionable a few) with resulting consequences. In the existent atmosphere, accountability does not exist.

Maybe I’m disconnected base. However, I neglect to spot however we tin expect the aforesaid “leaders” who for years and years created the problems to present person the quality and acquisition to instantly and efficaciously crook things astir astatine the district.