Prop. 38 on School Vouchers

* Re “Campaign for Prop. 38 Lies About Our Teachers,” Commentary, Oct. 30: The organizations UTLA President Day Higuchi and LAUSD Supt. Roy Romer represent are the same ones that told us ending bilingual education would hurt English-as-a-second-language children. They were wrong then, and they are wrong now. The LAUSD gave us the Belmont Learning Center fiasco. It didn’t know what it was doing then, and that hasn’t changed.

These greedy rascals gladly put their own salaries, job security and power ahead of our kids’ education. They are screaming now only because Prop. 38 is a threat to their monopoly. The fact that Prop. 38 will help hundreds of thousands of poor kids, the very kids the LAUSD fails the most, doesn’t matter to them. The truth is, LAUSD is a colossal failure, and the wisdom to fix it doesn’t exist. Our kids need Prop. 38. Vote yes.

J.N. GROVER

Garden Grove

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* Re “An Educator’s View: Vouchers Would Help,” Commentary, Oct 30: Paul D. White uses the phrase “honest competition” three times. I would like to know how he proposes to level the playing field, a key element to honest competition. Would he lower the field to the current public level by mandating that all participating private schools accept all children in their immediate area regardless of academic level and/or disciplinary history? Or would he prefer to “raise” the level by allowing public schools to reject any student for any (undisclosed) reasons?

ELLIOT HUTKIN

Marina del Rey