Readers React: ‘Recipe is love’: a math teacher’s lesson for adults

To the editor: Anthony Yom, the fantastic math teacher at Lincoln High in Boyle Heights whose students all passed the Advanced Placement Calculus exam (including one who achieved a perfect score), is showing us that the “recipe is love,” not threats given with antipathy intended to force unruly kids into becoming civilized beings. (“How a Lincoln High teacher gets all his students to pass the AP Calculus exam,” Feb. 3)

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could apply Yom’s principle for teaching success toward improving our relationships with everyone? Peace may even break out in the world.

Gerald Staack, Santa Clarita

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To the editor: Steve Lopez’s column shows the quiet dedication of a great immigrant teacher working with immigrant working-class students. This is a success story on par with the late Jaime Escalante, a great math teacher at Garfield High in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

This time, the success is fittingly at Abraham Lincoln High.

Can we continue to have kids and teachers of great success while thousands continue to fail algebra and fail to meet California’s college entrance requirements? A district and state divided against itself will not stand.

David Tokofsky, Los Angeles

The writer was a member of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education for 12 years.

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