LETTERS

Re “A smarter stimulus,” editorial, Jan. 15

I certainly agree with your point: “We need to equip students ... for the next industrial revolution.” Yet on your front page is an item about USC quarterback Mark Sanchez and his multimillion-dollar future.

Where are the front-page headlines about student-athletes’ accomplishments, or our high school and college students’ scholastic achievements?

Has The Times, along with the rest of the media, reduced itself to making role models of wealthy-to-be athletes at the expense of promoting academics as a worthy goal of our youth?

Can we publicize and popularize the accomplishments of tomorrow’s leading scientists, mathematicians and doctors to show that these people are at least as valuable to our society as an NFL draft choice?

Mike Harvey

Irvine