Opinion Line (Feb. 10)

Quit whining about cuts, USD 259. Look at the top for the chopping block, not the bottom of the pile. Let’s have a report on how many superintendents, executive directors, directors, coordinators and other administrators the district has, and the salaries and benefits we’re putting out for them.

Teachers are blamed for poor student performance but are working with poor raw products – students from dysfunctional homes and with no respect for authority. Airplanes cannot be made without good raw materials, nor can teachers build a quality product without good students wanting to learn.

Why not just make being a member of the teaching profession in Kansas a felony? Aren’t all the state’s problems due to teachers anyway?

Thank you, Gov. Sam Brownback, for having the courage to cut the bloated education budget. The administrative waste is enormous.

I am not sure what the Republican majority is afraid of that they have to resort to pushing for straight-party voting and eliminating any chances that teachers can swing upcoming elections. If the teachers’ vote was that strong, we would have a different governor.

If a person asks for an increase in his salary of $100 a week, but is instead given a raise of $60 a week, that doesn’t mean his pay was cut by $40 a week. I believe the same formula holds true when talking about school funding.

When will the editorial board at The Eagle ever support any proposal or efforts by any elected official, such as by County Commissioner Richard Ranzau, that serve to check the unlimited growth of all levels of government and foster more efficient use of taxpayers’ funds?

Dear Jordan: You go! We’re busy hiding behind Mommy’s skirt. Love, United States.

Obama is going to ask for permission to address ISIS militarily, but he doesn’t want authorization for enough military authority to actually take them out. Plus he wants a time limit, so ISIS will play the clock out knowing we will let them thrive after we exit.

I propose that any bill authorizing “troops on the ground” in the Middle East include a provision that all members of Congress voting for such action be required to send their military-age relatives to enlist and participate in the ground action.

When the Second Amendment was written, a gun was a tool, like a hoe or plow. Now it’s a toy.

Harvard has banned its professors from having sex with undergraduate students. I thought that was a given. For a group that is so smart, they can occasionally be very stupid.

This story was originally published February 9, 2015 at 6:15 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Feb. 10)."