Education in California

For those teachers out there looking for a real world example to explain the term “hypocrisy” to their students, Los Angeles School Board members have provided them a perfect one.

First, they claim they can’t meet the salary demands of the teachers without making substantial cuts. Soon after, however, they’re voting the identical raise to all administrators for the next two years (“School Managers to Get Raise Despite Teacher Opposition,” Metro, June 20).

Even worse, the same administrators (including Supt. Leonard Britton) who lambasted the teachers for going out on strike, secretly must have been rooting for them all along, knowing they’d be getting the same raise--a raise that cost teachers nearly 5% of their yearly income because of the walkout. Even a first grader would call that disgusting.

DAVE De HERAS

Long Beach