Randy Smith made serious assertions in his "My View" (Feb. 4) about the Davis School District, challenging the integrity of its employees, ignoring actual performance results and loosely presenting information. I, too, am a parent in the Davis School District, where I have lived for more than 50 years. We have graduated five children through Davis District. My wife and I have served on more than 20 district and PTA committees and task forces.

I'm also on Randy Smith's e-mail list, but neither he, nor his Web site, speaks for me, my family or my neighbors.

I was involved in the Davis High School Boundary Committee as the volunteer co-chairman. I was on the inside of all the work with sleeves up as a fully participating partner, never missing a meeting. Some have projected their personal anxieties to claim there were clandestine meetings, secret combinations and coercion to conform. With all I hold true and of worth I say: They are wrong. The only pressure placed upon us was the school board's relentless demand to not stop until we had created the best solution for the greatest number of our youths and their families.

So what really resulted of the district court's action that halted our work? Instead of continuing to work on a public solution along with more than 40 community representatives, public hearings, feedback opportunities, etc., the final boundary plan came from one person, although a capable consultant, directed by the court to ignore all the committee's work. The only "error in judgment" was the school board's lack of confidence in our parents and youths, who, because of their exemplary involvement and ownership in our children's futures, were provided an unprecedented opportunity to participate in a profoundly important decision.