Letters To The Editor

What Teachers Are Selling 

America’s Founders declared its citizens to be sovereign and the government the servant. But our public servants running our schools and teaching our children have sold us down the river, teaching that our government can do what it wants, and claiming that government should be instituting socialism. Of course, these teachers live off the public trough.

The president of San Diego State University is paid $441,000 plus benefits. Janet Napolitano — former governor and attorney general of Arizona, head of the Department of Homeland Security, and president of the University of California System — surely will get a nice pension from her gigs, while she has presided over numerous tuition increases to fund illegal aliens and pension increases, and though the California System is underfunded to the tune of over $11 billion. 

Meanwhile, 11 percent of high-school graduates entering college are proficient in civics; 89 percent are not. Thank a teacher. Twenty-two percent are proficient in math; 78 percent are not. Thank a teacher. Thirty-four percent are proficient in reading; 66 percent are not. Thank a teacher. Nineteen percent are proficient in geography; 81 percent are not. Thank a teacher. 


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