Fundamental change in education needed

While one might sympathize with the long suffering teachers having to settle for a 6.1 percent increase, however measured, one must have greater sympathy with the board, with burdened taxpayers, but most of all, with the students.

The board should now consider alternatives to the closed-shop, union-controlled system and provide for alternative, less expensive ways to deliver education of at least equal quality.

It is time, in Elgin and elsewhere, for the establishment of charter schools as well as a system of vouchers and school choice.

Pete Speer

Mount Prospect