Regarding the Aug. 27 article "Margiotta firm on diversity policy": Ron Margiotta is willing to come onto the school board and potentially mess up my seventh-grader's chance of getting a scholarship or funding because his high school may not be accredited because the board doesn't think schools need to be accredited, and he's 95 percent sure he's not going to run for re-election in November?
Can I send him and John Tedesco my university bill for the expected amount that I am supposed to pay? Because if the high school isn't accredited, we won't be able to get the funding we need to help him. No school is going to care that we were from the 17th-largest school system. Colleges want to know that my child has had all of the correct classes and is prepared to succeed.
The board majority should look at this evaluation as an opportunity to help our children and offer the best that we can give them, not as a decision to "pick up our marbles and go home" if the committee doesn't like what is being requested.
