Letter: Back at ya, Lytle

On Monday, Editorial Page Editor Jeff Lytle complained of the Collier County School Board and its administrators for expressing “an urgency to put all this behind us and move forward on new challenges” with regard to Immokalee High School Principal Manny Touron and his handling of overage students.

One would think that Lytle would be more appreciative of this stance since he publishes Jack Tymann’s guest commentaries ad nauseam. Tymann’s message, while always couched differently to conceal it, is always the same: Don’t ask any hard questions, go along to get along, support the current administration, read some more of my drivel and things will look better in the morning.

This was Tymann’s message during last year’s problems with former Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown.

After Katrina, Tymann wrote: “We are again mired in counterproductive finger-pointing, draining energy from constructive dialogue and long-term planning” and “at this moment, shouldn’t we be looking to tomorrow’s challenges, rather than yesterday’s failures?”

Isn’t this the same position Lytle is criticizing the school administration for taking? And yet he seems to be so enamored of Jack Tymann.

In yet another commentary, Tymann wrote: “What if parents, teachers and coaches focused on our children’s failings and shortcomings, rather than praising their achievements.”

I suppose the same could be said of high school principals. Let’s see if Lytle takes the advice he is so fond of publishing.

Kenneth R. Costello/Naples