Letter: School principals may be problem

Monday, Aug. 22, 2005 | 9:10 a.m.

School Board member Marry Beth Scow blames the inability of the Clark County School District to hire teachers on high housing costs and low salaries. Well, houses are expensive and teacher salaries are low everywhere!

Scow further states that a crisis needs to exist before the district can solve this problem.

Yet the district's director of licensed peronnel recruiting says, "The number of vacancies is scary." Maybe we are already in a crisis.

My question is: Why do so many Clark County School District teachers resign or put in for intra-school transfers?

The district should publish a list of all the schools and show the number of teachers who resigned, transferred or put in for a transfer so the public can grade the principals.

Could it be there's a hostile work environment in many schools?

I challenge the school district to hire good principals, use the district's money wisely and put more pressure on the Legislature to make salaries competitive to better serve our children and community.

LARRY M. JEPPESEN

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