Legislature wasting time

What the heck is going on with our legislature.

They are wasting time debating such meaningless items.

Does it really matter when transgender people legally change their names? Does it matter that drag shows are stopped so they don’t infect children with bad ideas? They don’t do their acts on the sidewalk. The shows are at night behind closed doors and people are carded on the way in (and no, I am not gay).

There are real problems in Kentucky to handle. The infrastructure is falling apart, prices are crazy, prescription medication is unaffordable, they can’t get qualified teachers for schools, and so on.

Yet, they don’t bother with the true problems. They dally with meaningless legislation so they look like they are doing something.

Jessica Lehnert

Bowling Green

Lawmakers should do more to attract teachers

If legislators really want to attract and retain teachers they could:

1. Use the pandemic relief money and pay back the teacher retirement money the state owes for the years legislators took the state’s retirement contribution and put it toward corporate tax cuts and rewards to their cronies. If they did, 60% of the debt would be paid off and teacher benefits wouldn’t continue to be cut.

2. Every time legislators give themselves a raise, teachers get an equal raise.

3. Stop cutting school food programs and SNAP. 1 in 5 kids go hungry every day. Hungry kids are harder to teach let alone the psychological harm to teachers who have to watch four of their students slowly starve.

Education is the largest employer in most counties. You don’t pay teachers; that’s less money coming back into the counties. Yet, legislators continue to bite the hand of what is feeding their county’s economy. What the legislators are offering are token attempts that won’t work but they can say they tried and public education is just broken (Rah-Rah charter schools). For all the good their current legislation will do, legislators may as well just declare a “Teacher Appreciation Month.”

Tacy Groves

Frankfort