There are several concerning takeaways from the front-page report, "Parents gripe about Norwich schools,” in the (Oct. 23) print edition.

1. A staff member was assaulted while in the workplace at a school in Norwich while performing their duties resulting in a trip to the hospital and diagnosed with a concussion.

2. The superintendent still does not admit an assault occurred at the school because they never got a report from the principal of the school, even though workers comp forms were filled out by school administrative staff.

3. Some school board members are turning genuine concern of parents into a political themed reason for the parents’ concern.

4. The superintendent is more likely to know about a busted mirror on a school bus then they are readily to know about the injury of staff throughout the system. Maybe the rose-colored glasses of all who support the ongoing denials of the superintendent will come off at the next in-person board meeting thus addressing the causal factors which result in bus/school room violence. In short, there is much opaqueness with little transparency from the superintendents’ office.

Pardon the cliché, but where there is smoke, there is fire.

Timothy Frick

Salem