To the editor:

I can’t get over the attitudes of these teachers.

We are practically in a depression. People are losing their jobs, losing their houses and in some cases losing their pets.

Board member Kuckel doesn’t seem to mind though. All she cares about are the teachers that might have to cut their salaries by 3 percent. In case you missed it, she had an article ina recent local publication. She advocates higher taxes, lost exemptions for businesses. She says that lowering taxes never helped in a poor economy. Let them eat cake. They just don’t get it.

She is a prime example of why teachers should not be on school boards. All her ilk care about is their salary going up every year. They openly say that it is all for the children. Baloney. They are using the kids for sympathy to benefit their own cause. They want their easy schedules to remain. They have the summer off with pay. Yet they want the taxpayers to pay more so that they don’t have to make any sacrifices at all. They won’t stop the bussing. We have a superintendent who is double dipping, and they use the kids for an excuse to line their pockets.

And these are Ph.Ds. I say it’s time for them to take a hit like everybody else for a change and stop letting them be prima donnas like they’ve been used to for their entire careers. Just who do they think they are? They are no better or more important than anybody else in this society.

John Pernetti

Cape Coral