Boy, what a mess. To be clear, I don’t have a dog in the Peterson/Crawford fight — don’t know either party. What I do have, though, are a number of questions.

Why wasn’t the Peterson family complaint handled internally? In recent years, families have donated, through the Davis Schools Foundation, hundreds — sometimes thousands — of dollars of personal income to help retain teachers, staff and programs, yet the administration thought nothing of wasting tens of thousands of dollars of our money on … what?

Is there an individual at the district who will come forward to say that he or she approved this expenditure? Is there an individual at the district who will defend this decision — who will explain why he or she thought it was a good idea? Will someone be held accountable?

Why — after hiring a full-time athletic director at the high school — have our sports programs been in such turmoil?

Once these questions are answered, we can put this mess in the rearview mirror, but while looking down the road it would be good for parents to remember not every little actress gets to be Clara, not every tenor makes the Madrigals, not every swimmer is offered a scholarship to Stanford — no matter how badly they may want it.

Kids get cut from the team, don’t make the band, get an F on a test. It happens. This is how they learn, get better, build character. What doesn’t help a kid is to have parents swoop in trying to right every wrong, real or imagined.

Vince Sturla
Davis

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