Letter to the Editor: Most meritorious
By Barbara Wade, Wagoner on Sep 15, 2013, at 5:52 AM
Letters to the Editor
In his letter, ("No One Listened," Aug. 31) Robert Leppelmeir made some inaccurate claims, inaccurate conclusions and key omissions. His intent was to exonerate George W. Bush for his war against Iraq.
Re: Baby Veronica story: Isn't it just a little odd that the same attorneys in Oklahoma City and South Carolina and the adoption agency are the same parties in the Desaray case in Oklahoma City and are now representing the Capobiancos.
As a retired Oklahoma public
schools teacher, I’d like to add to
John Vesper Sept. 8 letter, “Oklahoma
teachers treated poorly.”
I came from a family of educators
whose frugality kept our “noses
barely above the water.” Still, it
wouldn’t have mattered whether
we received $200 per month, or $2
million. We would still have taught
the best way we knew how. Merit
pay is a slap in the face because
most teachers are meritorious.
The pitiful raises we got usually
just moved us up a tax bracket,
anyway, so we came out 25 cents
shorter each month. We survived
the last week before payday by
going through pockets, purses, car
seats and floorboards searching for
change to go with the pop bottle
deposit money.
For entertainment, we went
to drive-ins, taking popcorn and
Kool-Aid from home. But, you
know what? We were never in it
alone. The wonderful bankers who
didn’t charge us overdrafts; the station
that let us charge our gasoline
and pay out our re-treads; the
neighborhood grocer who didn’t
charge us for the gallon of milk or
package of ground beef, if we came
up short at checkout; the policeman
who gave us a warning instead
of a ticket for being four miles over
the speed limit.
All these good people respected
their teachers and buoyed us up.
Until everyone has a job, I’m not
for anyone getting a raise — certainly
not the government employees
already making 10 times (or
more) the poverty level.
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Letters to the Editor
In his letter, ("No One Listened," Aug. 31) Robert Leppelmeir made some inaccurate claims, inaccurate conclusions and key omissions. His intent was to exonerate George W. Bush for his war against Iraq.
Re: Baby Veronica story: Isn't it just a little odd that the same attorneys in Oklahoma City and South Carolina and the adoption agency are the same parties in the Desaray case in Oklahoma City and are now representing the Capobiancos.
