Regarding the letter, “Let’s first try fully funding education”: Doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting different results, is the definition of insanity. Or is that the definition of public education? It’s time to change things and charter schools will do just that!

Charter schools would introduce competition into the mix, forcing accountability where none exists. If educators truly cared about end-results, they would clamor for this change; rather they clamor for the status quo, whispering the words of their Rocking Horse Winner: “…more money.”

We have spent more money and still no results. The suggestions that charter schools pilfer “…funds from the public school system…”; that they would weaken our schools, making it unlikely that children would “…receive a quality education…”; and that it would be “…unfair to taxpayers and children…” are absurdly ridiculous. Had a decent job been done, we would not be having this conversation.

What is unfair — to taxpayers and students alike — is the abject failure of public education. An annual squandering of $10,000-plus per student — funds that rightly belong to the student — that is unfair!

It is about choice. For the sake of all children, please consider a yes vote on I-1240.

Paul Munro

Snohomish