Debra Kolrud’s Feb. 20 letter, “Board ignores citizens’ comments,” concerning Monroe schools, is good. Her comments centered on kindergarten school day length and parents’ desires.

She says the district’s superintendent earns over $200,000 a year and that a salary reduction of 10 percent would provide some funding for the kindergarten changes many parents want. However, eliminating the superintendent’s position will make $250,000 or more available for better uses.

The educational results of the entire school system in Washington state are proof that the 200-plus superintendents are failures at their appointed tasks. We will save well over $40 million per year dumping the school district superintendent positions and allowing the school principals to operate their schools based on the principal’s knowledge of the needs of his/her students.

It is obvious that the college programs for a Ph.D in Happy Music have no courses on management of and performance by employees. Get rid of the superintendents and allow the management of the schools to fall directly on the principals. Think of what you could do with over $40 million!

Give the principals the authority to remove students that disrupt the educational activities the teachers strive to provide their students. And don’t cut the funding when the principal tosses out a moron.

All the teachers I know hate the school system’s PC crap about being “gentle” to the disruptive brats. In my high school the second disruption you caused got you a meeting with the assistant principal, who was discussing your next school location with your parent(s). We had very few discipline problems.

Richard Jauch
Camano Island