The real message about schools

Re “A drill can’t fix LAUSD,” Opinion, April 28

The rest of the world scores quick and easy political points by bashing our public school system. Virtually alone in the world of punditry, Sandra Tsing Loh identifies the successes of public schools. As a parent with children in public school, I love her work on this front, because school staff are properly more concerned with teaching than with rehabilitating their battered image.

For readers who merely skim headlines, “A drill can’t fix LAUSD” cynically echoes the conventional wisdom that our school system is broken beyond repair. The real theme of Loh’s column, however, was that reforming the schools will take more patience, skill and wit than we bring to a single day’s volunteering.

BRIAN NELSON

Woodland Hills