Dear editor:

We sit listening and watching our state Legislature battle over our next biennium state budget. Our country’s inflation is rising exponentially, businesses are closing, people are dying of unusual cases of mysterious illnesses, aggressive cancers, and our food sources are being bought up by foreign entities. We have rising costs in energy, leadership closing down our sources of clean, affordable energy to embrace costly, inefficient, unrealistic ‘green’ sources that are anything but. And yet we have almost a million dollars allotted in the university’s budget for the “Gender and Women Studies” programs.

I am very hard pressed to find much dealing with women in the “Gender and Women’s Studies” BA programs in the real world.

According to the Wyoming State Education “report card” our graduating high school seniors are below the 55% mark for proficiency in English and mathematics. More money allotted there for ‘new’ buildings and curriculum that does not work or is it the teachers? Or is it the system? For more information visit edu.wyoming.gov/for-district-leadership/federal-programs/title-i/state-report-card/.

If we are serious about education, we need to stop what we are doing today. We spend billions of dollars in our broken ‘education’ program. Why?

Perhaps the best advice we could give those in charge of it is this; Teach them to read, write and do mathematics, Study all history from the founding of this country, teach real physical science, civics and cut out all the ‘underwater basket weaving’ classes. It would save us over a billion dollars — the amount that we are struggling to ‘agree’ upon in next year’s biennium budget. Once you teach them to read, they can go and learn about dysphoria on their own dime and time.

Robin Berry

Cody