Who else to blame for a school’s failing status?

This letter is in response to Mark Pantermoller’s letter, which was published on March 21. As an educator for 10 years, I feel he grossly ignored the one key group with the most power and privilege: administrators.

It doesn’t take an eighth-grade education to know that most principals and superintendents were once teachers. Have you ever asked yourself why they left the classroom? Did they do it for money? Power? Legacy? A false sense that they could change the status quo?

Perhaps they left the classroom because they were tired of being the scapegoat of society’s problems or being stepped on daily by teenagers whose parents failed them. I certainly wouldn’t blame those administrators for the latter. Nevertheless, the former should never forget they were once teachers, too.

William M. Dolley

Winslow