Letters from Our Readers

As MacGillis makes clear, the Rochester City School District is responding to real, widespread problems. But it has made many decisions over the years that have led it to lose the community’s faith—and it keeps doing so. Recently, it put up a sign in front of School 10’s building announcing the new Montessori school that is moving in. The new sign is flimsy-looking and crooked, as if it had been hit with a strong wind. What happens inside a school is more important than the sign outside, but for the school’s elegant old sign to be replaced with this slipshod work says much about what the district thinks of the community and the children it is supposed to serve.