Michael: Yes, I say “zero tolerance” for school superintendents who get drunk, put themselves behind the wheel of a car, drive so badly that they’re pulled over, and get arrested for breaking the law. This isn’t a case about a seven-year-old getting suspended because he drew a picture of a gun in art class, so please don’t say this is p.c. “stupidity.” The standard for school superintendents should be high. They hold positions of public privilege and ought to lose their taxpayer-funded jobs when they behave in reckless ways that can kill people. If Ms. Perry had any decency, she would resign her job out of shame. Her failure to do this means that the Alexandria School Board should tell her she has to go because this is not the way school superintendents are expected to behave. You seem to think drunk driving is the moral equivalent of a parking ticket. Sorry, but I disagree.

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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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