I was shocked to read how R.G. Hollowell is ready to pass judgment on our schools simply from what he has heard. Having had one child graduate from St. Aloysius and another graduating from Vicksburg High, I am in a position to make an accurate comparison without having to depend upon rumor and innuendo.

We have a number of citizens who follow Hollowell’s model — condemning our public school system, even actually advising others who earn their money here to locate in Clinton. Somehow it has become a secret that the Vicksburg Warren School District now offers more Advanced Placement and Accelerated Courses than all but two other school districts in the whole state — including Clinton. I know half a dozen other parents who share my experience, having bought into all the negative press only to be very pleasantly surprised by the superior performance of the dedicated professionals in our public school system.

Instead of publicly advertising the areas we (and just about every community) need to work on to improve, maybe we can pitch in to build a better community by working to change our self-inflicted bad image.

Skipper Guizerix

Vicksburg