'Culture of contentment'

You ask why taxpayers are still paying for the end of career pay bumps in our schools. The answer is that school boards, with the encouragement of administrators, have created a "culture of contentment" that discouraged people from looking at the facts. This culture is now well entrenched, because school superintendents, and a few school board members who personally benefit greatly from the system put out the story that "it saves us money." This won't stop until more taxpayers look at the bigger picture and insist that administrators and school boards do a better job of balancing the maintenance of good schools with the total cost we pay to support them.

Willard Bishop

Barrington Hills