I compliment The Dispatch on an editorial I can fully support, Friday’s “Common Core should stay.” On Thursday there was an excellent op-ed column on the same subject, “Common Core came from the states” by Michael Cohen; an objective and dispassionate explanation of Common Core’s origins and aims.
We must keep up the pressure to make Common Core work. We shouldn’t short-change our future adults on their way to becoming productive citizens and knowledgable voters by watering down the Core's aims and objectives.
This is not a curriculum and not federal encroachment. It is a statement of educational goals generated by state governors.
Meanwhile, I am embarassed by the current proposed legislation that would take away state funding from any municipality or organization that supported the care of non-documented immigrant children (“Bill would punish cities that house migrant kids,” Dispatch article, Saturday).
That kind of thinking is unfortunately totally in keeping with our current ultra-rightist legislature.
There was a certain irony in that the article appeared just below the Dispatch article “Ohio agencies rally help for young immigrants,” which reported on the outpouring of support for these children by organizations around the state.
The current legislature makes me ashamed to be an Ohioan.
At least there was a reason to laugh found in another Dispatch article on the same day: “Portman blames Obama for inaction during crises.”
Sen. Rob Portman had the gall to criticize President Barack Obama for lack of action in current crises. This come after massive criticism of Obama’s executive orders. What is he thinking?