I take offense at the message that comes from the Democrat Party the concept that if one is not educated one is intellectually inferior. Is it the proverbial sheepskin that qualifies one to be smart enough to make a sane…

A letter of September 19 furnishes this quote from the JOURNAL FOR EDUCATION “Americans view Obama as much more supportive of public schools than McCain”.  It further states that “Those of us who support the public schools, ought to take note…

To this Ladue voter, the decision by our school board to favor paper credentials (Master’s degrees) over performance, merely to keep up with some nearby Joneses in a meaningless statistical contest, is another sign that this group has lost its…

There are now 51.7 teachers in the Ladue School District with Masters Degrees yet it is one of the top performing districts in the state.  Ladue pays its teachers on the merit system.  No genius, or even one with a…

Instead of the principal of Beaumont High School wasting the taxpayers’ money riding around the neighborhood in a fire truck, shouting over a loudspeaker that school begins on Aug. 18, perhaps he should hire a  few big, burly truant officers.

Harvey…

I have some questions I’d like to see the Politicians and the News media and all of the lobbyist answer.

Business

Why do all of you have to be so internationally minded? Look at what healthy growing nations are doing. It looks…

I believe only one thing would really refuel the growth of our city (and other cities in the U.S. with the same problem). That would be for the top priority of the city to make its children the most important…

The hand wringing evident in your editorial “Planning an End Game” results from the failure of every position on the SLPS the Post has supported for the past 10 years. The Post supported the settlement agreement, Mayor Slay’s business oriented school board,…

Education is getting a lot of attention in the presidential campaigns. A retired public school teacher, I want to weigh in on a couple of issues.

Math and science are important, but to concentrate attention on those subjects and minimize the…

In his letter printed Saturday, Gene Dalton says:  [Barack Obama] “is unmistakably a product of highly educated parents and grandparents who sent him to private schools.”

If Dalton mistakenly believes this, he should read Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama’s autobiographical…