I wasn’t going to say anything, but after the response to schools Superintendent Christina Kishimoto’s letter, I have to speak up (“Superintendent denounces ‘double standard’ in school rankings by Honolulu Magazine,” Star-Advertiser, April 5).

Am I the only person who figured out from reading the title of the Honolulu Magazine article that it would be about public schools?

Private school is just that — private. People choose to send their kids to private schools for so many different reasons that one cannot compare the schools on any one scale, such as test results. The state has nothing to say about private schools, and is not responsible for their student outcomes.

Public schools are the responsibility of the state and the state must be able to justify what it does with students’ education.

I cannot believe that Kishimoto would even bring up such a non-issue or that the editors of the paper actually printed it. I still can’t believe it. Who said life is fair?

Sandra Kurata

Pearl City

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