This is in response to the letter from Phillip Webber Sr. printed March 21.

I apologize for not reading the March 16 article about Tina Vanasse’s comments at an Auburn School Committee meeting, so I have no background information.

What I do have is 37 years of teaching experience, which does give me some credence to what I’m about to say. Webber needs to look up the word “stereotype” in his dictionary, because when he used that word it meant “all” teachers are like the ones he has wrongly identified.

If teaching is such an easy job and the pay is so good, why hasn’t he become a teacher? There are three schools in his back yard who need his expertise on how to make our schools better.

Teachers today wear many “hats,” with teaching just one of them.

To say that his education was better than the education children receive today is so ludicrous that it doesn’t even deserve a comment.

Lastly, using his example of stereotyping, I wonder if he thinks all the people of Sabattus feel the way he does? Being a taxpaying citizen of Sabattus, I, for one, think our teachers are doing a great job in these trying times. Notice, I said “one.”

George A. Ferguson, Sabattus