Editor, Gazette-Journal:
Attending the joint session of Gloucester supervisors and the school board on Oct. 15, I became disappointed at a colleague trying to disparage the comments of Supervisor Philip Bazzani, who spoke in support of Superintendent Dr. Vladu and his fantastic accomplishments over his first year of Gloucester’s Superintendent of Schools.
I have lived here for 25 years and Dr. Vladu is the fifth superintendent I have worked with, all with a particularly good rapport. Each has a different approach to management, budgeting and ensuring that the division’s students meet the best scores possible in all subjects authorized by the Virginia Board of Education.
Critical to this are the parents; their participation in ensuring that their subject achievement is necessary is a plus. One needs to realize each student as an individual has a different level of intelligence each year of their schooling life. In their 12 years or more of learning, they may see one or two superintenden...