Editor,

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had it with teachers right up to here.

The only word in their vocabulary seems to be “more.” Teachers never seem to specify anything beyond that, just “we need more.”

Well, folks, I hate to tell you, but “more” is throwing good money after bad. When you come to me with a plan — establish your goals, define your plan to do those goals, create a budget, show how you will accomplish the plan and how you will test to see if those goals are met, then I will talk to you.

Otherwise, go to your corner and shut up.

You claim to be professionals, I say, “not hardly.” Professionals wouldn’t give their paycheck, retirement, benefits to demonstrably corrupt unions; professionals wouldn’t give up their right to vote to the same unions.

Oh, you didn’t give up your right? Who do you think pays for all those misleading political ads, pays for the politicians the unions own, buys the laws the unions pay to get passed? You “voted” with your dues; your ballot is irrelevant …

Professionals wouldn’t turn their classrooms over to incompetent bureaucracies hundreds and thousands of miles away.

Your strikes are an example of how low you can go. It is against state law for you to strike, but you did it anyway. You are supposed to set examples for the kids, be a role model. How are you going to explain to the kids that you are a law-breaking criminal?

If any of you would bother to read the proposed budgets, you would see the Senate budget — Republican, passed — will raise education spending by 18 percent — plus a bunch of other increases: K-3, kindergarten, etc. with no new taxes.

The House budget, Democrat, not passed, doesn’t come close and wants to raise taxes all over the place, typical of the last 30 years of Democratic rule in this state.

You have a job where you can’t get fired, you have no liability for doing a bad job, your benefits are above your salary, which you usually neglect to mention when whining about your pay, but in the words of my dad, “there aren’t any hooks in your butt keeping you there.”

Paraphrasing William F. Buckley, I think I would trust the first 400 names in the Oak Harbor phone book more than I would trust union teachers anymore.

Rick Kiser

Oak Harbor