This is in response to Phillip Webber Sr.’s letter about teacher hubris (March 21). Right on.

Never have so many relatively well-paid and underworked folk demanded so much from the relatively poor people who pay the bills. If the result of all our largess was a well-prepared product – a graduate – much of my criticism would be gone. But no, we get mediocre results and cries of poverty.

I, for one, am tired of educators believing we are all idiots. Many of us know the constant demands for more money “for the children” almost always means nothing more than more money for better pay and benefits for the educators.

I am tired of paying more in taxes every year simply to upgrade some teacher’s vacation.

Jim Verdolini, Portland