Is Davis not aware of what happened?
In response to your story about Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Erroll Davis, it was reported that Davis’ top priority is “creating a culture that targets outcomes” (“Changing a culture,” Opinion, May 13).
Is he not aware that we had a well-publicized cheating scandal that also focused on outcomes?
Sounds like an instant replay to me.
ROB BRANSON, ATLANTA
Join the T-SPLOST to benefit everyone
Peter Pfeifer’s hostility to the upcoming T-SPLOST vote, regardless of his alleged fiscal analysis, is counterproductive and typical of the “me-me-me” turf obsession with the backward mentality that only car drivers have a right to move about and that the entire Atlanta region — including Fayette County — is not in this together (“T-SPLOST not the answer,” Opinion, May 15). We need a balanced transportation system for the entire region.
What is all the more galling is that Fayette County is the worst adherent to the NIMBY and snob mentality, given its large numbers of bicycle paths which enabled me to move around for miles without a car when I lived in Peachtree City.
A perfectly good rail line exists from south of Peachtree City all the way past Atlanta.
Just think of actually having a choice to ride a train and not have to endure miles of traffic jams and rude drivers on area highways.
Join the 21st century and support the T-SPLOST to benefit everyone!
D.M. SMITH, MARIETTA
Rader wrong about how DeKalb feels
As the Outreach Chair of Good Growth DeKalb, a neighborhood coalition group formed to stop the proposed Wal-Mart in Decatur and to promote neighborhood-friendly growth in DeKalb County, I can tell you that DeKalb County Commissioner Jeff Rader is egregiously wrong (“The good, bad, the Wal-Mart,” Metro, May 13).
The majority of residents — and his constituents — in the surrounding neighborhoods, not just Medlock Park, categorically do not want a Wal-Mart Supercenter at Suburban Plaza.
Unlike Rader, we have made the effort to meaningfully gauge neighborhood sentiment around the Wal-Mart by conducting door-to-door canvassing and continuing outreach in other varied and numerous ways.
Rader is a public servant, and as such he should be more attuned to and receptive of the collective voice of the neighborhoods, which is overwhelmingly opposed to the Wal-Mart.
If he thinks that he can soft-peddle such canned statements as those quoted in the article, his constituents should take a hard look his effectiveness on our behalf when he is up for re-election.
JENNIFER CERASO, DECATUR
