Reader Monika writes in response to Chip Mosher’s recent column:

I do not understand why you teachers all act like you have no power at all. You are the ones educating the future of America and you all seem to be spineless wimps, who are afraid of the administration and are not able to form a union which is actually working in your interest.

I grew up in Germany and teachers there were well respected, well paid and had plenty of vacation.

If you the teachers are not able to change your situation, how can you teach the youngsters to change the world?

I always enjoy to read your comments , but this time I was really turned off by that sentence: “Teachers in Las Vegas live in fear ……..”

I never went to school here (I came here in my thirties), I only took a few semester at the university. There I was flabbergasted by the ignorance of my fellow (American) students. They certainly did not meet the standards we have in Europe for somebody attending a university.

I am also very annoyed by the school buses. Not so much by the buses, but by the fact that inspite of the buses all the school streets are completely clogged in the morning and early afternoon by chaufeuring parents.

The administration would do better to build bike paths and side walks when they build new schools and should not allow that car circus, maybe that would reduce some of the obesity in the kids.