Don't micromanage public employees

I don't agree with the Daily Herald's position that the public is better served if the evaluations of teachers, police, and other public employees are made public.

In my opinion the most important goal of the evaluation process is to improve the performance of an employee. Good performers should rise to the top and bad performers should be weeded out. The criteria for measuring performance is both objective and subjective. Every supervisor has a different approach and skill level to conduct employee evaluations. The result of an evaluation is not like a standardized SAT score.

Will one evaluation by one particular supervisor tell the story about an employee? Will the media and public have the patience to take into consideration a series of evaluations? Might making evaluations public result in some supervisors giving employees a more positive evaluation? We need our public institutions to provide the good services that we are paying for.

The Daily Herald believes that the media and public should micromanage public employees. I don't think that copies of employee evaluations is the answer.

Dennis Reynolds

Glen Ellyn