Letter: Playing envy politics
Some $450 million in aid is at stake in New York City regarding teacher evaluations. (Jan. 13, 2013) Credit: Istock
As someone who canceled his Newsday subscription several years ago because of what I see as incessant and unjustified teacher-bashing, I should not be surprised at your most recent article about "release time" for teachers union leaders ["LI teacher union chiefs," News, March 18].
Newsday is expert at playing the politics of envy, and even though the amount it costs each school district is ridiculously negligible, you show aggregate amounts to inflame the anger and passions of people who really do not understand anything about unions or schools. They just know that they are frustrated and hate having to pay taxes.
If your newspaper spent as much time investigating the corruption in our financial system, and the political system that enables that behavior, you might be serving the interests of your readers, instead of engaging in inflammatory demagoguery masquerading as public-interest journalism.
Neal Madnick, Flushing
