Public school officials to blame

Tuesday, May 25, 1999 | 10 a.m.

Is it entirely possible that our public school officials have been asleep at the switch and failed to hear the horn and see the head light of the oncoming and fast moving train?

Why must the Legislature mandate what subjects our school administrator must ensure are taught to our children? Isn't that a given, when an administrator is given a job with a good pension? It is time for our school administrators to stop tending to their personal investment portfolios during school hours. It is time for them to get up out of their chairs long enough to determine what the year-end tests are going to be on, and then make sure the students we entrust to them are educated on the relevant subjects.

As for scrapping the test because it has not been used or taken enough -- only a Ph.D. in education would come up with that kind of pathetic illogical reasoning. But I will agree, only if we can get 90 percent of the administrators to pass the test.

DONALD J. MELLO, Reno

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