Pension problem belongs in court

In your editorial, "School boards part of pension problem," you suggested that districts are at fault. I would like to suggest specifically that someone in an official capacity within each district is at fault.

Once we understand the contracts promising future pay hikes to educators and the state laws negating the promises made in those contracts, we can find out how to deal with those broken contracts.

Should the educators sue their school districts and then settle out of court for the lost wages as a way of gaining redress? Or should the state law be challenged in court because it did not take into account this seemingly acceptable process of contracts including clauses projecting future wage increases?

In other words, this belongs in the judicial branch in order to answer the question of which participant in this bureaucratic and budgetary nightmare is the immovable object and which is the irresistible force.

David Jahntz

Geneva