Moderator’s introduction

Today's education page can best be described as provocative. In a guest column, a Cobb resident suggests something akin to heresy in politics: Eliminate a senior citizen tax break to ease the school budget crisis in that county. Readers respond to that idea in today's response column. And a college professor wonders why we prosecute APS teachers to the extreme but turn a blind eye to the financiers responsible for the economic crisis. The latter, whose average salary was more than 200 times that of the educators, not only retained their jobs, they received multi-million-dollar bonuses in the years afterward, and not a single charge has been filed against any of them.