How can anyone with a reasonable mind support Lewiston’s school budget referendum when the superintendent can’t even make a plausible case?

Has the superintendent done a forensic audit of all facets of the district? If so, what did he find? If he didn’t, shame on him.

Where is the argument that any increase will yield certain results and identify what they are? Identifiable milestones, metrics, not smoke and mirrors.

Why are we hearing the completion rate is “a 10 percent increase over a few years ago” and not a 10 percent increase over a specific year, or range of years? This is more like the car salesman selling me on a car that costs $10,000 more for 1 mile-per-gallon fuel efficiency.

And then the superintendent has the gall to highlight the request with athletic standards — not academics.

Pitiful.

I hope those students will become future doctors, lawyers, business people. Teach them how to be accountable to results now by showing them how that works.

Ellen Salisbury, Lewiston