LETTER: School district hands out $1M to quash lawsuit

Las Vegas — In a letter dated September 1, 2026, at 9:01 p.m., resident Jack Schreiner condemned the Clark County School District’s trustees, superintendent and legal counsel, asserting they should “have their heads examined.” Schreiner referenced a Review‑Journ­al story published the prior Friday in which the district allegedly paid the parents of a pupil $1 cardinal after a substitute teacher repeatedly struck the student’s hand with a shoe. He contrasted the settlement with his own childhood experiences, noting that if his parents had received comparable compensation for each occasion he was struck with a ruler or paddled during school, they would have been affluent before he completed high school.