To the editor:

Very soon now we will have a fresh class of teachers graduating from our university. Of all the noble professions these have chosen to be among one of the most important, but least rewarded, except possibly in the history books and heaven.

If you were among the best and brightest or even in the top half of your class, would you choose to start your career here in our home state? I sincerely doubt that. In fact I would say Kansas might well be at or near the bottom of your list. Wouldn’t it be better to go where they value good teachers rather than the ongoing undeclared war on the profession that is going on here.

So, most likely, we will get those trapped by circumstance or in the bottom half of the graduates. A further dumbing-down of our underfunded schools will be the result.

If you believe in such simple truths as E equals MC squared, evolution or that the earth is round and revolves around the sun or that vaccines work, there are almost certain to be members of the Kansas Legislature that will deny this! If you expect the right to join a union to fight for wages that can support even yourself much less a family, Kansas is just not the right place for you. A winning football coach or basketball coach is worth millions, but the chancellor of the university much, much less. Is there something wrong with this picture? After all we are just looking at our future are we not?