WCCUSD's Bruce Harter Out of Touch

The WCCUSD Reporter is the district's quarterly newsletter. The Spring 2008 issue starts with a message from Superintendent Harter. First, he refers to his signature school visits - "I’ve made unannounced visits to all our schools this year—at least three visits per school and well over 200 visits since the year began." I think this demonstrates the opposite of what he intends it to. If he had a clue about what is going on he wouldn't have to be constantly visiting schools like some foreign dignitary. He says "But if you could visit schools like I do, you too would know the reality that our schools are safe places where our students are on task and the focus is on teaching and learning." He acts like the district is suffering from bad PR instead of decades of underperformance. I find this kind of talk disingenuous.