To the editor:

School Supt. Randy Weseman was quoted in the Journal-World as saying that, since Wayne Kruse had resigned, the matter was “over.” Now, it may be that the decision to keep Mr. Kruse on the payroll instead of firing him was a reasonable economic decision, but something that some school board members, administrators and teachers seem to have lost sight of is that the lessons learned by their students are not all learned in the classroom and that results cannot all be measured by standardized tests.

Mr. Kruse has been charged with committing a breach of trust and fiduciary responsibility and, in that day’s lesson plan, he disappointed his students and failed in his role as exemplar. The district then compounded Mr. Kruse’s bad lesson not only by not punishing him for his alleged inappropriate behavior but by actually rewarding him with a continuing paycheck.

Lesson for the day: Crime does pay after all. Class dismissed.

Bill Mitchell,

Lawrence