To the editor:

Alan Welles’ Sept. 9 response to my comments placing blame, in part, on our educational system regarding the “sub prime crisis” is erroneous to the extent that he said I blamed this on the “lack of resources” in our public education system. This is a misquote as I blamed it on the “sorry status” of the system.

Quite to the contrary, I would suggest that throwing money at the system from all levels of government the last 30 years has resulted in little, if any, increase in educational benefits to our bureaucracy, enhancing the coffers of associations of school boards and their lobbyists and enriching lawyers such as happened in Kansas and some other states.

It did not take such large sums of money to educate the generations who won two world wars and developed the greatest industrial nation on earth. All it took was a concentration on the basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic rather than on the political correctness mania that rules our present system.

Floyd Gehrt,

Lawrence