To the Editor:

Re “DeVos Weighs Funding Guns for Educators” (front page, Aug. 24):

Federal money for guns in schools? You have to be kidding.

Teachers are dipping into their threadbare pockets for money to pay for pencils and crayons and paper for their students. Textbooks are ancient and falling apart. Plaster is falling off the walls or ceilings.

Our country still has districts of prosperity that have benefited from the Republican tax cuts, while districts of limited means or even middle-class ones struggle day to day with students who come hungry, underprepared and stressed and with huge classroom sizes — and Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, wants to spend precious dollars on guns?

More guns will never be the solution to any problem we have. Only a privileged person who has never shared the struggles of families hoping to get a quality education for their children would think so.

Dee Baer

Wilmington, Del.