You write stories about the education in Maine. I have written to our governor about this very thing.

Yes, it is good that the children today get a good education. The problem comes when people try to get jobs.

Businesses want you to test at 11th grade level before they give you a job. There aren’t that many jobs out there.

I and many others have gone out and looked for work, gotten a job and, then, after two weeks have to pass a test. We’re told that we didn’t pass the test so we are going to have to let us go.

You go in about a job and get another test. You don’t pass it so, again, you don’t get the job.

My point is that it’s hard if you have been out of school for more that five years but have your own business and work in management and customer service in another job, only to be unemployed and back on welfare and unemployment checks.

With the state of Maine in the red, the public needs to do something about it. The sooner people know this the sooner something can get done.

Ruth Spinner, Lewiston