Letters to the Editor: Stop dumping on public schools. They went through a pandemic too

College students are screened earlier than coming into Elysian Heights Elementary Arts Magnet in Los Angeles on Jan. 14.

(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Occasions)

To the editor: Right here we go once more .

A ballot co-sponsored by The Occasions signifies dissatisfaction with public colleges in California. After acknowledging the apparent concerning the pandemic restrictions, the remainder of the article cites many different systemic causes.

However the common tone of the article, together with the headline, gives the look that the faculties (lecturers and directors) are at fault.

As a retired educator, I skilled the final deterioration of so many norms in training. It’s arduous for lecturers to compete with smartphones, poor vitamin, chaotic dwelling lives and lack of alternatives.

We don’t honor and respect the lecturers sufficient. They're underpaid however anticipated to mentor, counsel and train courses with massive discrepancies in talents among the many college students.

I had thought that oldsters, having taken on a better function of their youngsters’s training with distant studying through the pandemic, would higher perceive the wonderful jobs lecturers do. The Occasions may do extra to analysis options and promote help for public colleges — or a minimum of select to not be so destructive.

Marty Wilson, Whittier

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To the editor: So dad and mom and voters (many one and the identical) lose belief in public training because of the challenges posed by the pandemic?

Did anybody lose belief in themselves for issues they couldn’t do effectively through the pandemic (like maintaining weight off)?

Individuals, come on. Face difficulties with out blaming others, and be sturdy. That is what we want proper now.

Scott W. Hamre, Cherry Valley, Calif.