Letters and Comments for July 29, 2009

Lucas

Teachers undergo more scrutiny

To the Editor:

The days of common sense and equal treatment under the law are over.

Recently, I traded business for the public school classroom. To become a teacher, I passed a series of exams, was fingerprinted and subjected to an FBI background check, and provided proof of identity.

Between graduate school and being hired by a district, I was fingerprinted three times. I had to show I was competent, trustworthy and safe. That’s why I provided my work history, college transcripts and other documents as proof.

Barack Obama, “Leader of the Free World,” is responsible for exponentially more than teachers: setting foreign policy, commandeering the auto and health industries, solving global warming — not to mention commanding our armed forces with all their personnel, equipment and weapons … nuclear weapons.

Yet, Obama was neither fingerprinted nor subject to one background check. From what I’ve heard, he not only has refused to show his college transcripts, he’s hired numerous lawyers to keep them secret. As far as I know he hasn’t produced his birth certificate. (Sorry, that posted on the Internet is widely agreed to be a digital forgery.) And while Congress deliberated on John McCain’s citizenship status, Obama’s remains shrouded in mystery (so much for transparency).

I’ll be fingerprinted again in the fall when I start teaching for another school district. They’ll want my transcripts, resume and birth certificate. Meanwhile, Obama continues to stonewall Americans about his African roots and other personal facts.

Think: Obama is neither qualified nor authorized to teach in public school, yet he has been given the keys to the White House and the cipher code to one of the world’s largest nuclear arsenals.

He has not proven that he is competent, trustworthy or safe. Thus, we wouldn’t let him teach our children.

Yet he is leading our country to God knows where.

Equal treatment and common sense, anyone?

Timothy Lucas

La Grande