The State Ethics Commission isn't very ethical. Neither was the Hinshaw & Culbertson report. Nor does Mr. Withers have the last word. What's financially best for the district has been for too long the criteria for the board's decisions. A settlement is not in the best interest of our school district. That our community places political and economic expediency above morality and uses craft and deceit to maintain authority and to carry out discriminatory policies is wholly reprehensible and deserves utter condemnation. District employees from top to bottom have been intimidated and humiliated and oppressed. Unpleasant as it is for everyone, Mr. Baker should go all the way. Certain cancers must be excised with radical open-body surgery (not by changing the schedule, not by cutting teaching, guidance, ESE special assistants and custodial positions). This is the proper place for wielding scalpels. Craft, deceit, and economic expediency need to be wholly exposed and fully eliminated if our district is to achieve healthy recovery from its historic policies of pushing and trampling upon its most important people. I disagree with former and current board members as well as with the current school administrators and the _Naples Daily News_. Collier County Public Schools is not a corporation cranking out widgets. We are not an arm of the military. What are we? We don’t need to reinvent our nation’s high schools. We don’t need to reinvent 9th Grade. We don’t need to restructure our schedule. We don’t need to save (or make) more money. We might begin a remodeling of the Board Chamber at the Martin Luther King Administrative Center. Exalted positions for these people above the rest of us seems quite ironical. In spite of the quality of character exhibited by the current occupants, the Skinnerian design of the space fosters an atmosphere of intimidation and fear and encourages those so exalted to overweening pride. Mr. Baker should not settle out of court.