Superintendent review does not compute
Re “Superintendent’s grades good,” Oct. 21: Columbus City Schools school board completed its performance review last week of Superintendent Angela Chapman’s first year on the job, giving her above-average marks.
In my science class, 2.81 out of 4 is 70.25%, which is just average. And 2 out of 5, the district state score, is 40%.
In my class, this would prompt a call home to alert Mom of a problem here.
Bob Grove, Columbus
School board needs to do its homework
The story about the review of the Columbus City Schools superintendent reported she was reviewed on the category of “vision, continuous improvement and focus of district work.”
This is actually three categories, each requiring different skills and measures.
Educators know this.
Is it telling that the board does not?
Rich James, Columbus
Shouldn’t women have right to life?
Between 1996 and 2001, I had two miscarriages. The second was at 14 weeks. I was in pain and hemorrhaging. My husband rushed me to the emergency room where a colleague of my OB/GYN awaited us.
I passed out on the gurney. They had to perform a D&C (an abortion procedure).
I was lucky.
Had the abortion bans we see today been in place then, my husband would likely have found himself left to raise our then 4-year-old daughter alone.
More: Georgia’s abortion ban linked to Amber Thurman’s death in ProPublica investigation: What to know
Regardless of your personal views on abortion, you need to understand the cost of the collateral damage caused by these laws.
Amber Thurman is not the first, and certainly will not be the last, woman to die because doctors hesitated to give her the care she needed until she was close enough to death to say it was a case of “the life of the mother.”
Former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance both support a national abortion ban.
So here is my question for you to consider as you vote: Does the right to life not apply to women?
Karen Laird, Powell
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MAGA fascism on the ballot
In the letter to the editor “Voting for Harris will honor my oath” published Oct. 12, Maj. Gen. Dennis J. Laich, U.S. Army (retired), contends that communism and terrorism were less of a threat to our Constitution than MAGA fascism.
In the Oct. 20 letter “MAGA better than communism by a long shot,” James Revelos gave us many statistics of human death and misery resulting from communism. He said MAGA fascism was way better than communism.
Yes, I think we can all agree communism is bad. Revelos suggested that Laich preferred communism over MAGA fascism.
Of course, Laich said no such thing. He merely pointed out that the immediate threat of MAGA fascism to our Constitution is far greater than that of communism.
Apparently, it did not occur to Revelos that there are other choices besides communism and MAGA fascism, both of which hate our democracy.
Thank goodness we still have our democracy . . . for now.
Communism is not on the ballot this year. MAGA fascism absolutely is. Vote to protect our Constitution and our democracy. Vote Democrat.
Richard D. Back, New Albany
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Letters: Columbus superintendent annual review doesn’t add up
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