Superintendent search

How much is the Waco Independent School District going to overpay the next superintendent? The starting pay of the last superintendent was more than the ending pay of the previous one. The starting pay of that one was higher than the ending pay of the one before.

Outgoing superintendent Roland Hernandez is actually going to a district where he will be paid less money than what he earned here.

To pay the ridiculously high salary of the leader of the district, schools have had to cut helpful programs, like free child care to employees who don’t get paid much. Will academic courses also get cut now?

Soon they’ll have to start cutting teacher pay to pay the superintendent.

Certainly the district needs a leader who can help it meet and surpass its goals, but more money at the top is not going to make things happen any better or faster.

Robert E. Cagle

Waco

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Will someone please tell me why the interim superintendent is good enough to serve as interim but not good enough to serve as the real superintendent?

I believe the Waco ISD board and its search committee have overlooked local candidates for many years. They tend to hire from out of town and pay them a big salary. They end up with someone like Roland Hernandez.

How many times has this happened already? Haven’t they learned anything from past experiences?

R.T. Nelson

Waco

Voting allegations

Some folks want to kick our new state senator, Brian Birdwell, out of office already on a trumped-up bogus witch-hunt charge of double-voting.

There was no crime. There won’t be any prosecution. There’s no scandal because it didn’t happen. Any prosecutor would laugh at the “evidence” against Birdwell.

The wording this newspaper used in its July 29 editorial [“Clean slate”] is interesting, saying that “the jury” was neither in nor out. No, the jury is in. The verdict is “not guilty” because there’s no proof.

To all cynics and do-gooders demanding an investigation, prosecution, conviction, incarceration or expulsion: How would you feel if somebody accused you of a felony crime that you did not commit and demanded that you go to prison?

Come down from your high horse and think about that before casting the first stone.

Pete Wrench

Cleburne

Not for children

The July 16-18 Waco Children’s Theatre production of “42nd Street” was not for children. The production was adult entertainment.

I thought in children’s theater the cast is mainly comprised of children, and the theme is supposed to be family-oriented. This was not the case. There were four-letter words used that I don’t consider family entertainment by Waco standards.

Director Linda Haskett said at the end of the play that copyright agreements prohibited script alterations.

I suggest there are many other scripts suitable for families to enjoy in the future. Or else, they should advertise that the entertainment might be for mature audiences only.

Janice Conner

Waco