Dear Editor:
All we hear about these days is the usual ruckus coming from a few school teachers. I went to school in North Vancouver from 1947 to 1959. During the early years in elementary school, our class size was 40 to 44 students. During my junior high and high-school days, again the class size was 35 to 40 students. We never had any computers.
We never even heard the word "strike." We had our field days and sports days, and it was fun. The teachers enjoyed these days as much as the students. You hear some teachers saying they don't have enough time to spend with each of their students. I don't recall any of my teachers when I went to school who worked one-on-one with their students. Yes, we all came through our first 12 years of school with no serious problems.
With everything today being so automated, the teachers today have it easy, compared to when I went to school.
If you don't like your job, quit.
See if you can find another job with two and one-half months of vacation every year. And see if you can find a job with the same salary you are making today as a teacher.
Lorne E. Dennis
North Vancouver
