Interesting letter in the paper today from Linda Cook.

You can read it here

Who's she?

She's the president of the Penn-Delco Education Association.

She makes a very good point, one that I think about here most every day. It's about newspapers, and what we do. And, I suppose, what we don't do.

While much of the district's officialdom (school board, former superintendent, education foundation) is in a full meltdown, the process of education in the district goes on.

Teachers (who Cook represents) teach. Kids go to class. The football team plays its games.

The education children get in Penn-Delco is a good one. That process is continuing. But no one seems to talk about that. And it certainly doesn't make headlines.

Cook is right. And there's a reason for that. It's not news. That is what is supposed to happen. It may sound harsh, but it's the truth.

That does not mean the newspaper does not cover other, more positive aspects of the school. We do. That was one of the things I expounded on in last week's print column. I mentioned we did a long piece on high school bands. Much of that story focused on kids at Sun Valley. That was not an accident.

It got headlines. It even got on the front page.

But we will continue to focus on what is going on in Penn-Delco, as everyone waits with baited breath for the results of the county district attorney's investigation of the district's business dealings, especially those linked to former board President Keith Crego.

One of my bigggest regrets about this entire story is the fact that we had been told repeatedly that the county had hoped to wrap up their probe and announce results before the end of the summer.

I had hoped that would be the case so the school year could get off to a fresh start.

That's obviously not going to be the case. Whatever and whenver the D.A. announces, it is going to put Penn-Delco all over the fron tpage of the newspaper once again.

Linda Cook probably won't like that.

In the meantime, kids will continue to go to school. Teachers will continue to teach. And at some point, maybe, just maybe, things will return to normal in this troubled district.

But it won't be today.

That's because we're reporting on more troubles for the Penn-Delco Educational Foundation, including the exits of several board members.

There is the matter of a $100,000 state grant, and what it was used for, and what the district's liability in the matter might be.

Just another day in Penn-Delco.