Why are teachers the only ones whose salaries you question?

Why question

just teachers?

When Liv Finne (“Schools need better teachers, not more money,” April 3) asks “Which would you choose for your first grade child, a great teacher in a classroom of 25 students or an ineffective teacher in a class room of 15 students?” the obvious answer, which she denies us, is, “A great teacher in a class room of 15 students.”

However, like baseball players, there are a few great teachers who are born, but the rest of them have to be made.

And that’s what the extra education money that does not go directly to teachers salaries is for (provided it isn’t spent for fancy leased cars for administrators).

Coaching, training, development, performance management, classroom audits, processing dismissals for teachers who would be better in another profession, etc., I think we can afford this cost.

It’s a lot better economic stimulus than shoveling money at our mortgage scam criminals to reward them for breaking our economy.

But is that the real question? Why aren’t these think tank folks always writing about the performance of our building inspectors, firemen, health inspectors, policemen, etc.? They have important jobs, too.

Maybe education of our kids is more important? If so, why are they always worried about cutting costs there?

Maybe the real concern is ensuring what is taught is acceptable to the folks who fund Liv’s Center for Education Directorship at the shadowy Washington Policy Center.

I think that is the real motive behind a lot of this “failure of public education” propaganda.

The real concern is teachers aren’t shoveling enough capitalist ideology down the kids throats.

They want school to be training, not education.

They want to teach them what to think, not how to think.

EZEKIEL SCHMIDT

Port Orchard

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