Reaction to Columbus schools’ corruption disheartening and potentially expensive

By Tom Blumer | For Ohio Watchdog

The reactions of people who should know better to the pervasive corruption at Columbus City Schools have arguably been more demoralizing than the mounting evidence of wrongdoing investigators continue to accumulate.

It has been a year since the Columbus Dispatch’s Bill Bush revealed that CCS had engaged in “attendance scrubbing” on a truly breathtaking scale for more than five years, wiping “2.8 million student absence days off the district’s computers.”

Mind you, the district only has about 51,000 students.

After all this time, the district’s wall of resistance — let alone receptiveness to genuine reform — has barely cracked.

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