DEAR EDITOR:
This headline on the story
”
Study: more GUSD teachers underqualified
”
was misleading and seems to try to cast a negative light on the
school district.
DEAR EDITOR:
This headline on the story “Study: more GUSD teachers underqualified” was misleading and seems to try to cast a negative light on the school district.
When a reporter gives prominence to the results of a study unendorsed by the state, from September 2002 to 2003, over current GUSD data it’s disconcerting.
If the study is to be believed, the real story, and the headline should have reflected this, was that the percentage of underqualified teachers in the district has decreased 80 percent from 2002-03 to 5 percent in 2003-04.
Further down the article the author revealed, “However, according to district data, only 5 percent of teachers this year lack full credentials.”
Why did the writer chose to put the positive information further down in the article as an aside and not give it prominence? When I read articles such as this both the reporter and the paper lose credibility with me.
Beth Dewey, Gilroy
Submitted Tuesday, Dec. 9 to [email protected]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ms. Dewey is right. Our apologies for a headline that did not accurately portray the story and a lack of balance at the beginning of the story.
