Prop. 227 Suit

* Re “Teachers Sue to Block Liability in Bilingual Education Law,” Dec. 4: Well, we now know what the teachers in California will be teaching this year--hypocrisy. They claim that they must waste money on an action (by the way, whose money? public money? state money?) to protect their “constitutional rights to free speech and due process.” Why? Because “with all the things teachers have to do today, they should not have to fear being sued.”

I’ve got a better idea. Follow the law, and there’s no chance of being sued. All they’re looking for is a way to avoid implementing this law and to circumvent the will of the people and substitute it with their own idea of right. What arrogance. After all these years of substandard test performance, you would think the teachers and their union would have learned the salient lesson: Like their administrative counterparts, they don’t know what they’re doing or how to do it effectively.

JOHN M. HAYTOL

Newport Beach