Comments about ‘My view: It's time for Utah schools to improve, return autonomy to teachers’

More money. My money, your money, everybody's money. The rich pay for the education of the poor. Face it. The children are ENTITLED to it and the REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH is the only way to provide equal opportunity for the poor.

Besides, who else is going to pay our Social Security in twenty years?

Right.

Look at our dropping birth rate and growing number of single-parent families. We had better also be recruiting more of those entrepreneurial, hard-working, family-values-oriented guest workers and encouraging them to stay long enough to provide us with the next big infusion of E Pluribus Unum.

Thank you, Mr. Thomas! My district has gone the direction of requiring all teachers to have everything in common. My own teaching quality has been flushed down the toilet as I try fit my square self into my colleagues' round holes. I was once a heck of a teacher. Now I am only a shell of my former self, teaching lessons that don't fit my style.

Do you really think that the legislature and school districts will relinquish power?

All of the problems in our schools can be traced back to one source, the Utah Legislature.

They have failed our kids and us parents. They have let the illegals come in and get "drivers cards" and their kids stay in the school system. That has a lot to do with the feds as well but our state could be doing a LOT more.

The legislature has underfunded our schools and demoralized our teachers. They have micromanaged to the point of ridiculousness. The testing going on is pathetic and our classrooms are overpacked beyond belief.

The sad part is this was the goal of a few high powered legislators who somehow keep getting voted in.

Don't blame the parents, don't blame the students, don't blame the teachers. It all comes from one source, the legislature.