Letter: We should value police and teachers more

Few if any professions are more important to a free society than the quality of its police force and its teachers. Not many of us have the education, training, discipline and patience to enter or be accepted into these professions, and yet, despite the dangers and responsibilities, we give them so little respect in contrast to most other free countries.

Sure there are a few bad apples as in all professions, including the clergy, but teachers and police represent some of the best of we have. They are