Respectfully, I strongly disagreed with the Oct. 19 letter, " No more taxpayers' dollars for schools ." The letter emphatically opposed public funds for public schools, and I do disagree with that, but that's not the position I'm referring to.
The writer said she doesn't have anyone in the school system. I disagree. I've never heard of such a person. I've never had children, but my taxes have gone toward the many people I've had in the system. She might not have had these people yet, or perhaps she just didn't recognize them. For me, they're my nurse, CPA, EMT, radiologist, mechanic, and hospice nurses. (My parents' hospice team was as much mine as theirs, and my thanks are forever theirs). Everyone whose skills and talents were temporarily and crucially mine was in the school system, and even though I've never been wealthy and have sometimes been very poor, I don't regret a cent that went toward their education.
I don't even resent the education that enabled this resentful letter. I do believe education must continue at the highest level possible, because people we will all need later are in the public-school system at this very moment.
Marie Casey Stevens LeBrasseur
Duluth
