I-BEST: No time for entitlement

I read with interest your article in the Post Falls Press about the I-BEST program. I laud North Idaho College for providing the students the opportunity to complete their high school education and receive vocational training simultaneously. However, I was angered and dismayed by the sense of entitlement expressed by the student featured in the article ("I was stressing. I thought I'd have to flip burgers to put myself through college"). Many of my peers and I did flip burgers and did other menial jobs to pay for our educations. The assumption that our education was the responsibility of someone other than ourselves did not exist.

I hope that the expressed sense of entitlement was the fault of a poorly written article rather than the attitude of the students taking advantage of this worthy program.

PAUL WENIG

Post Falls