My Obama said we have to get rid of the bad teachers. I resent that right wing radio talk attitude his comments exemplify.

Here is a man who has the power to investigate and prosecute the corrupt leaders of the banking and insurance industries and HE DOES NOT DO IT. These bad, corrupt managers caused tremendous financial losses, tremendous pain and sorrow for the 15 plus million persons who lost their jobs and their families. Each of these corrupt managers had a fiduciary responsibility to their stockholders and they made a personal fast buck instead. They have legal responsibility for their financial statements and they broke the law by lying.

Mr. Obama has directed no legal investigations be conducted by the US Attorney General Holder.

Mr. Obama prevents legal investigations and prosecutions of Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney for wars crimes e.g. setting up a world wide system for torture, conducting illegal wars of aggression, etc.

And he has the nerve to say that we need to get rid of poor performing teachers as if 50% of the teachers in the United States are under performing teachers.

Under present law, teachers are to be evaluated, disciplined if needed, brought up to a better level of performance, suspended or fired by principals.

Principals in our public school systems are usually far over worked and have little time to devote to supervising 30 to 100 teachers.

The management and the effort to improve teacher performance has never been set up in the large consolidate schools systems since the 1950′s.

The concepts teacher unions have offered, such as, mentoring programs for new teachers, mentoring/performance improvement programs for tenured teachers who are having difficulties, the establishment of a master teacher track or a teacher leader track, etc. have never or seldom been designed, approved, funded and implemented. The concepts of paying superior or master teachers under a union contract, has I believe been offered, but school boards and management seldom agree because they do not want to admit the present system of failed non-management by principals doesn’t work.

Obama needs to lead by example not by rhetoric. He needs to live up to his oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United State of America. He needs to prosecute major alleged politically powerful criminals to the fullest extent of his power before he can tell others about improving their performance.

Buzz Davis, Stoughton, WI

I am pleased that the students at Wright Middle School had this opportunity to be up-close-and-personal with a great role model, and on the topic of education. But I have to agree that I am disappointed with the approach of one-time grants, and winners and losers in the process. Is there a state that doesn’t need funding to help reverse the trend from “race to the bottom” to “race to the top”? What we really need is a complete change in attitude about the importance of education. Penny’s for Kids – yes, that is what we are doing, and what cost to our national and global interests.