Founder of ECOT Should pay up

With the closing of the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, there are going to be students displaced and I feel badly for them. However, ECOT should have been closed a lot sooner, but founder Bill Lager had a scam so good that he made off with millions of dollars of our taxpayer money. He got away with it by lining Republican legislators’ pockets with hundreds of thousands of dollars so they would look the other way and always give him and his phony companies a pass.

The state of Ohio should go after Lager and get back every dollar he has. Make him sell his fancy houses and anything else he obtained through our money. Also, every legislator who took money should pay back every cent he or she received. This would send a strong message to anyone else who wants to take advantage of Ohioans due to the loose regulations on charter schools, especially online charter schools.

Charles Summers Pataskala groceries.

What a hypocritical move! How can Kroger ask for copious donations from its shoppers daily to service other charities but it cannot service the community that has served it?

Sue Mogan Westerville Kroger needs to close. It is not profitable, and I believe the No. 1 culprit is theft. After talking with a neighbor, who has three friends who work at that store, I learned theft was a huge problem. Not just food items but customers were stealing grocery carts so much that Kroger had to invest in electronic devices to put on their carts so customers could not take them beyond a certain distance.

In November at my Clinton Estates Civic Association meeting concerning the Morse Road Kroger, we learned that customers are leaving perishable goods such as meat, ice cream and milk on dry-good shelves rendering them not fit for consumption. Also at the meeting, it was said that employees were stealing from that store and subsequently fired. That meant Kroger had to hire and train new people.

If things keep going as is, the Morse Road Kroger also will not be profitable and close.

We don’t want to lose our stores and the stores need to make a profit. The answer is simple: Stop stealing because it affects everyone. If one decides one doesn’t want a perishable item in one’s cart, he or she should put it back in its original place.

Randi Bova Columbus