Teacher Salaries

* Re “Getting Teachers Up to Speed,” Commentary, Dec. 11:

I wholeheartedly support Carol P. Barnes’ “immediate measures,” not because they will solve the present shortage of qualified teachers, but because they are good ideas, which should have been instituted long ago.

A teacher shortage is the result of supply and demand, the same as a shortage of anything in a capitalist society. Raise the price for teachers and individuals will respond. It is a simple matter of raising teachers’ salaries high enough until the quantity is adequate.

NORMAN E. DAWSON

Chino Hills