In response to the editorial “Did this serve kids?”, Jan. 30, perhaps the next time you visit the fair city of Columbus and are approached by someone with egg on his/her face you should simply smile, step aside and assume it is an employee of the Ohio Department of Education. Rest assured on your trip home that the Education Management Information System manual has since been expanded from one sentence on how to report truancy to include an additional 20 pages. Then consider the time and money spent to correct this mistake, lost to the detriment of those who count most, the children of our public schools.
FAYE SCHAFFER
Springfield Township
Unveil the racist
I read the Saturday Essay by Gerald Johnson, vice president of General Motors.
(“Standing against discrimination” Jan. 26), but I don’t understand why this is a management problem. Over 80 years ago, the workers at General Motors and other automobile manufacturers decided they wanted more control over the terms of their employment, so they formed the UNITED Auto Workers. UNITED. Someone in the UNITED Auto Workers committed these race-based offenses. Someone else in the UNITED Auto Workers knows who that person is. It’s time for the UAW to decide — are they united for racial harassment or are they united for racial harmony? For equality of opportunity or white supremacy? Turn over the perpetrator to management and work with management to see that the perp is properly disciplined.
THOMAS GERKEN
West Toledo
First Published February 3, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
