Letter: Challenge this
Editor, Daily News:
The arrogance of Collier County Public Schools Superintendent Dennis Thompson is truly astonishing.
A Johnny-come-lately to Collier County, he has deigned to diagnose us to be both significantly psychologically challenged and disoriented because of the massive change that is occurring in the school system. (Thursday’s Daily News). This smoke screen is too transparent to serve his purpose of obfuscation and should not go unanswered.
The truth is that Collier’s citizens are not as upset by the so-called massive change of decreased funding as by:
1. Thompson’s proposals to address the issues such as privatizing some services.
2. The very questionable — to say the least — manner in which three members of the School Board appointed him to the superintendency. It is regrettable that the matter did not go to trial so the facts could be aired.
3. The $800,000 to $1 million cost of this terrible act — an amount denied to the classrooms where the students are taught.
Thompson should surely be aware of these three reasons. If he is not, I invite him to note the resounding defeat of one of his School Board sponsors in recent elections. It attests more accurately to our psychological health and critical concerns.
Should Thompson’s psyche continue to prevent him from trying to know us and the real needs of our students, it would be in our mutual interests if he sought employment elsewhere.
C(P).C., Naples
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To "C.C." in Naples --
I think you are a doo-doo head.
Signed,
Dennis Thompson
Doctorite in Ed Psych
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