An overly generous school district

Regarding your April 25 front-page article on pension reform, It does not warm our hearts to know that we are taxpayers in Wheaton Warrenville School District 200.

The overly generous school board is paying a past superintendent's health insurance, even though he is a working superintendent in another district and on a "five star" retirement from here, to boot. We are also paying for a superintendent who was unceremoniously let go of duties very shortly after a contract renewal. The interim superintendent, of course, is being paid while we search for a new superintendent.

We are chagrined when our district is referred to in articles about other districts who are suffering similar problems with administrators and their contracts, as is happening in Lake Park High School District 108. We have heard how hard the district is working to trim the budget with the least amount of harm coming to our children's educational programs and least amount of teaching positions lost. Some local watchdog groups have lauded the effort.

There seems to be a huge disconnect, with the board regarding the administration at the top and the product delivery at the bottom. We can only hope that one day the proper priorities will take hold and we can maintain a reputation worthy of high esteem from top to bottom and that our children will receive the best education possible.

Mary Landreth

Wheaton