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Regarding Mayor Richard Riordan’s assessment of the schools (“Riordan Task Force Plans Its Own School Board Slate,” Sept. 12): Finally, someone who has the fortitude to tell the truth. The emperor is naked and the schools are a disaster caused by letting politics dictate policy instead of common sense.
I will either have to move or send my sons to a private school while my taxes support a deficient public school system.
I certainly don’t share [governor candidate] Gray Davis’ confidence in the school system and I don’t understand why he praises it in his TV ads.
JOHN GONZALEZ
North Hills
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