Business teacher finds editorial to be annoying

To the editor"

Recently there was a guest editorial that appeared in our local newspaper, The Joplin Globe, that was credited to your newspaper. The editorial was regarding the dissection of animals. While I don't disagree with the editorial's opinion, I found the last few lines to be insensitive, uninformed and insulting: "Perhaps students who have a problem with the practice should enroll in business classes, where the only dissection they'll have to do is of accounting statements."

I am in my 33rd year of teaching business classes, 29 at Joplin High School and 4 at Crowder College in Neosho, Mo. It is a constant annoyance to business teachers that so-called intelligent people like to look down their noses at business classes as being for dummies. I can't tell you the number of times that straight-A students have stumped their toes and messed up their grade-point averages in lowly business classes. I would love to have the writer of this editorial in one of my classes. He might learn that he isn't quite as smart as he thinks he is. I think he owes an apology to every business teacher he has insulted with his ignorance.

VIRGINIA STARK

Joplin, Mo.