Dear Editor,
Every time I read one of Alan Viarengo’s letters, I shake my
irresponsible, union-hack, racketeering head attempting to clear it
from the mangled logic, incomprehensible comparisons, and tortured
diction he spews.
Dear Editor,
Every time I read one of Alan Viarengo’s letters, I shake my irresponsible, union-hack, racketeering head attempting to clear it from the mangled logic, incomprehensible comparisons, and tortured diction he spews.
Over the years, Mr. Viarengo has shared his problems with and in public high school. Now I know why he had problems. He has difficulty researching topics (wanting others to do it for him), he can’t stay on topic be it factual or anecdotal, he confuses reality with emotional relativism, and when all else fails, he conjures his own reality and calls people names. Just like in high school, I guess.
Mr. Viarengo wrongly accuses GTA President Michelle Nelson of stating, “… no teacher evaluation system can be fair.” If I’m not mistaken, the Dispatch titles letters, not the authors. Apparently Mr. Viarengo read the title, then the author’s name, but neglected to read in between. Ms. Nelson said nothing about evaluation. Her sole concern was how to equate teacher performance to student testing, not to evaluations.
As is common with the proponents of Gov. Schwarzenegger and President Bush, Mr. Viarengo combines disparate topics into cause and effect relationships though there are no substantive correlations. Invading Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and evaluations have nothing to do with merit pay and teacher performance, yet Mr. Viarengo attempts to co-mingle them in his attack on Ms. Nelson and myself in an attempt to create his own reality.
Mr. Viarengo’s letter-writing technique is right out of Carl Rove’s playbook: 1. Make a statement, be it factual, anecdotal or just made up, 2. follow with how this statement should be incorporated into his reality, 3. attack those who don’t agree with #1, 4. call people names and/or make false accusations in an effort to belittle the accused or attacked, and 5. Repeat with #1. Check it out the next time he writes in.
His feeble attempt explaining a design analysis for his homogenous private school algebra/science classes, and extrapolating it to public schools is the epitome of simplistic thinking and self-aggrandizement. If a “merit pay/teacher performance/student testing/evaluation/tenure driven” model were somewhere to be found in this state, country or world, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
I don’t expect his experimental design email queue will soon fill.
Dale Morejón, Gilroy
