George Robison, Gig Harbor

Published September 2, 2011 

Being 80 years old, public school was long ago. Due to the World War II military service of my father, I attended several schools. In working on a charitable project for some local schools, I looked at teachers' lists of items students should provide. In my day many of those items were provided by the schools.

American taxpayers paid for reconstruction of the world after World War II. Now they aren’t willing to pay to educate our youth, including teacher salaries, textbooks, school maintenance and classroom materials needed to support teaching plans for classes.

Teachers aren’t at fault for funding problems faced today. Taxpayers are too willing to allow the future of the nation to be determined by inadequately trained youth who are competing for jobs that don’t require a good education. We need to match the generations that provided educations that allowed us to be a scientific and technical leader of the world.