Former superintendent shouldn't be paid Why in God's name and in the interest of good conscience is Middletown continuing to pay the salary of the ex-superintendent of schools, David Witmer ("Witmer still being paid in Middletown," Sept. 7)? He is accused of misappropriating $23,000. He is under investigation. He should be indefinitely suspended without any salary at all. Once again the Middletown Board of Ed is wasting Middletown taxpayers' money. When is the education system, and Board of Ed, going to get things right? Under what rationale is any superintendent deserving of a salary, plus stipends, in the high six-figure range? Although the Middletown school system is large, it is not the size of New York City. I don't care what the competition may be for superintendents. The high six-figure range is too much in this area. Also paying an interim superintendent $168,090 is wrong, too. Nicholas Del Giudice Middletown