Keep Luscombe at DMCS

Clint Luscombe is an excellent teacher and role model; For me he made a frustrating subject easier to handle by keeping it lighthearted. His commitment to DMCS is unparalleled and I am shocked to hear that he is being considered to be let go. My heart goes out to him and all those who undoubtedly will be negatively affected by him leaving.

You can’t let him go after so many years of service. He is a really good teacher and my daughter loves his class.

Great man, great teacher. Class of 99

keep him

Luscombe is solid. He cares about his students, and I think provides a course experience that is not too easy, but not too impossible, that all of the students are able to learn the material if they truly desire. I had him as a teacher, and I think he provided a solid mathematical foundation for me. (Will complete a masters in engineering next year, also earned a minor in mathematics)

He was my favorite Math teacher!

Best math teacher around -class of 2000

I remember when Clint first came to DMCS. He has always been a man of integrity. All four of my daughters have had Clint as their math teacher. One of them was Valedictorian of her class. Math can be a hard subject. I don't believe Clint makes it harder. He was always helpful to my daughters. There is someone behind this. There always is. Remember - you reap what you sow - I have watched the downfall of several people associated with the school because they sowed hurt or harm for others. They eventually reaped the same or worse. None of them are there today. You may get your way. Be patient, God who sees and knows will repay. It is only a matter of time. Romans 12:19 “Vengeance is Mine says the Lord, I will repay”. I hope it was worth it.

Hearing this news breaks my heart. Both my children loved and learned a lot from Mr. Luscomb. He took the time to make sure they understood math problems and prepared them for college.

I am in the class of 2019. My relationship with Mr. Clint Luscombe goes deeper than just a math teacher for high school. He is a family friend and a brother in Christ. I remember back in kindergarten, I participated in his wrestling program. I lost so many times that he told one of the kids to purposefully lose so that I didn’t feel so bad. The next couple of years, I participated in his baseball program. I couldn’t catch, throw, or bat very well, but he kept encouraging me through my failures. In fourth grade, I was asked if I could help him in the wrestling program. I agreed, and one of those days, I got a new book and decided to write my name in it during a break in the program. He then called out my name, so I got up and set the book and pencil down, and he claimed to the other students there that I was a responsible boy doing his homework. I never have been good at doing homework, but am getting better, especially in his class. In sixth grade, my dad was diagnosed with cancer, which he survived, and left his job as a janitor at the school. He kept telling me that I would like Luscombe as a teacher because he would take the time to answer any questions and be patient as I struggled to figure that problem out. Then I got to be a freshman in a new teacher’s geometry class, I liked the way she taught us and got some misleading reports of how Mr. Luscombe was a mean teacher that never taught you anything. I went to my dad, and he convinced me otherwise. I then entered Mr. Luscombe’s Algebra II class, where I was overwhelmed with information. I struggled, asked questions, and even got help on the homework assignments. I am now in his Precalc/Trig class and want him to teach me Calculus next year. That won’t happen if he leaves the school. I wouldn’t mind not having the dual credit, if I am taught by him. He is a godly man with a bigger heart than all central Iowa. His humor may be bad, he might have gone to Hoover without calculators and he might have even gone to

My son had Clint and while he said his class was hard, he was always there to give extra help. I believe Clint truly cared about his students and left a positive influence on them. Letting him go this way is a huge mistake and counter to moving the school forward! It is against the founding principles of the school.

DMCS class of ‘08

I want him as my teacher

He is an excellent teacher and it would be a huge mistake to not renew his contract.

As a former DMC parent and Board member, I am stunned and saddened by this decision. Clint is one the finest educators and coaches I have ever known.

I wish I could say that I am surprised by this action, but sadly I am not. I’ve heard about how other teachers, principals, and even a superintendent were forced out because they didn’t fit the vision for the future of DMCS. My question: Whose vision? Who is making these descisions? A larger review is much overdue. So many others were treated in this same way. Why?

One of the best teachers still left there. Hands down

DMCS Class of '91

Mr Luscombe is a fine example of a Godly man. He knows each of my children by name even though three of them have graduated. I hear funny stories of his classes. 30 years of a 40 hour work week is over 62,000 hours of his life. That does not include any sports, no lunch break time or after school time. Please reconsider your actions

I Timothy 5:18 says, “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn,” and, “The laborer is worthy of his reward.” There is not a single person who has ever been associated with DMC that has labored more. 30 years. You could conservatively figure 3000 students. Mr. Luscombe has certainly labored. It’s not as if he could teach at a high level, impact the lives of students, and model a Christian walk for 30 years and then just suddenly forgot how. Somehow we are left to believe that Mr. Luscombe earned a contract for 30 years, but suddenly he is no longer up to it. That is ridiculous. The only other option is that he committed some type of fire-able offense, however, we know this is not the case as he is simply not being renewed. In fact, his is capable enough as a teacher to teach for 30 plus years; he is even capable of teaching the remaining weeks of this school year, but is not capable of teaching beyond. With the stakeholders of DMC (students, parents, teachers, and alumni) getting no explanation, the decision maker or makers do not have to give any account for their action or support it in any way. This is the act of a coward. You could piously claim the Matthew 18 principle here as some sort of Biblical justification for lurking in the shadows and claim that the reasoning should be only between the administration and Mr. Luscombe. However, this action has not only been done to Mr. Luscombe. It has been done to the thousands of families who have been purchasing the product that DMC has been selling for the past 3 decades only to tell us now that they are taking a big part of that product off the shelf. This has not only been done to Mr. Luscombe, it has been done to everyone who he has impacted and continues to impact. And so the stakeholders do deserve an explanation. Out of the 30 or so teachers I had in K-12 there is only one teacher who has had a lasting impact on the way I do things and my character….that is Mr. Luscombe. When my