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A10 JOURNAL NORTH 2014 IEWPOINTS IEWPOINTS OMMUNITY PRESS Editor: Eric Spangler, 591-6163 OMMUNITY OURNAL NORTH LERMONT Community Journal Editor Eric Spangler 591-6163 Office hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday See page A2 for additional contact information. 394 Wards Corner Road Loveland, Ohio 45140 hone: 248-8600 mail: eb site: www.communitypress.com Apublication of Common sense would indicate that a school district staffed by hundreds of highly paid masters degree-level teachers and administrators would be able to design and implement a curriculum for student success without relying on top-down edicts from Washington, D.C., special interests. Apparently not so in Milford where it is embraced. Core the opyrighted, privately owned ducational standards, were a dopted sight unseen by 46 states in order either to receive federal to the (RttT) funds or to be able to waive RttT requirements.

Written and promoted through unds provided by the Bill and elinda Gates Foundation, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and others, stated purpose is to assure student college and career readiness. Because CC has been described as without (the a doption process by-passed tate legislatures), currently ver 100 bills are before state legislatures attempting to slow, stop, or reverse final adoption. The Ohio effort is being led by local mothers Heidi Huber a nd Thea Shoemake, founders Ohioans Against Common Core, who are criss-crossing Ohio to present the dangers to our children by a centralized, national curriculum over which parents and local school boards will have little influence. CC permits little deviation from its curriculum (only up to 15 percent) by local school officials.

Federal involvement in CC (and in all education) is unconstitutional, violating the feder- a lism concept commanded by he Ninth and 10th Amend- ents in the Bill of Rights. Furthermore, the federal statute known as General Educational Provisions Act (20 U.S. Code Section 1232a--prohibi- tion against federal control of ducation) makes federal inv olvement illegal. Parents oppose the exhaustive data-mining, records- keeping, testing and assessments being imposed by CC on children, especially since it employs methods seen as developmentally inappropriate or insensitive. Such data, coveted by government, business, and industry, may haunt a child through life.

CC-authorized textbooks may also be captured by politically correct points of view. lassical educators hold hat man is essentially a spirit ual being subject to physical needs and wants, and that education matures a ability to think and reason to meet those needs while controlling his appetites. Personal evelopment and knowledge is i ts own reward, leading to a fully-civilized, unique human being. Schemes like CC see man only as a material being with no real will of his own. The student must be molded and shaped, not primarily for his own good, but for a utopian of imposed by elites who Common Core is Marxist to the core, a scheme akin to Year and eap seeking to roduce worker bees, consume rs, taxpayers, and soldiers for acollectivized global economy.

Iask the Milford schools and the state of Ohio to reject it. Randy Kleine is a resident of Milford. Milford schools should reject Common Core Randy Kleine COMMUNITY PRESS GUEST COLUMNIST Last question Earth Day is April 22. What, if a nything, do you do to observe Earth Day? Do you believe the day is more or less important han it was when it began in 1970? Why or why not? will do absolutely nothing to observe earth day. I prefer to worship the Creator, rather than created R.W.J.

the Earth Day i probably more than what it was back then when it started, especially with all the cleanups and tree giveaways these days. My son and I are planning on cleaning up the trash in the oods behind out house. It gets washed down the hill, through the storm drain from our treet, right down into Clough Creek which flows right into the Little TRog do anything special, as I celebrate it every day by recycling, using cloth bags at stores, etc. I honor the environment every day, not just one ay per C.H. day? Probably should plant a tree.

I love trees and we lost a couple last year it is time. As far as the importance and significance placed on Earth Day, I believe i has lessened over the years, which is a shame. spite of all of the arguments batted back and forth concerning global climate change, one would hope that would pay much more attention to our planet and what we are doing to it. Earth day is at least one day where we ught to stop and say: M. J.

F. do we celebrate Earth Day on April 22? Why do we elebrate Christmas on the 25th. And why do we celebrate Easter on that special Sunday. a senior citizen I celebrate Earth Day every day as I gaze out the window in the morning and as long as I see the green side of the grass and not the brown side I feel fine, lucky, and D.J. answer your weekly uestion nothing.

Earth Day is simply a left-wing effort to indoctrinate the school child ren. It's roots are in paganism. is nothing wrong ith being concerned about the environment, it's just that the movement goes to the extreme. The environmental movement is out of control. The EPA is a good example.

he federal government uses it for its own C.C. try, in our household, to bserve Earth Day every day, a nd not just once a year. pains us to see how many people still don't carry re- useable grocery bags and still buy 24 packs of bottled water that usually comes from muni- ipal sources. must not realize hat plastic is partially made from oil and most of those plastic bottles (that never decompose) are hardly ever re- ycled. water filter and reusable ater bottle would save the typical family hundreds of dollars per year, and would be etter than what is bottled.

one time protecting the earth and her resources used to be an important subject taught often in our schools, but not anymore. What a shame, not to instill the love of nature and its gentle care in our children. all of the environ- ental damage being done to our earth in the name of greedy energy producers eve ry person should be conscientious in reducing and combining errands, in turning off a ppliances and lights not being used, and recycling as much as possible. The earth that we are leaving for our children, grandchildren and their children looks pretty bleak. We could all do more, and should, every J.B.

volunteer at a booth for Citizens Climate Lobby at the Sawyer Point celebration. We'll educate people on the best ways to reduce Global D.B. NEXT QUESTION How could the federal govern- ent have better handled the standoff with Nevada rancher Clivan Bundy? Every week we ask readers a question they can reply to via e-mail. Send your answers to with Chatroom in the subject line by 5 p.m. on Thursday.

Caden Ness, 10, of Amelia, plants a tree during the Cincinnati Nature enter's Earth Day Celebration weekend. AMANDA Heroin, a pain killer, kills! Responding to April 9 heroin article. In I was fighting in Ohio for excruciating pain sufferers: spinal injuries, cancer, getting proper pain management. Doing such advocacy revealed the power of medical and pharmaceutical political machine. Physicians, then, lacked backbone for fighting for heir patients.

enablement that ain bill which had been stuck 2 5 years finally came to a vote! In 1996 it became law after the Medical Boards got two words altered, and the clause which mandated M.D.s have four hours pain management training deleted. Lucrative pain clinics proliferated. hose with good insurance were able get appropriate pain medications. In 2012, I observed changes which indicated that killing of our citizenry had begun, and is now escalating. currently using euthanasia law, strengthened by present federal law, which physicians to terminate individ- als, are reducing the elderly, dis- a bled, injured and indigent population.

hen persons with legitimate pain a nd health issues can no longer find knowledgeable M.D.s with the courage the dangerous street arkets flourish. In one never knows what one gets! Heroin, a pain killer, kills! Viktoria McCulley Goshen Township Thanks to firefighters, police On March 25 my daughter's brand new home in Miami Township caught fire. Happily no one was injured. The quick response of not only the Miami Township, but also Goshen and Loveland fire departments, kept this fire from completely destroying the house. Firemen worked through the night helping my son-in-law with salvage ef- orts in areas where the fire was not act ive.

are all grateful to these fire- ighters, as well as the Miami Township police who spent this chilly night closing Cook Road and directing traffic. Patty Hogan Milford LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ABOUT LETTERS AND COLUMNS We welcome your comments on editorials, columns, stories or other topics. Include your ame, address, cell and home phone numbers so we may verify your letter or guest column. Letters may be no more than 200 words and columns must be 400 to 500 words. Please include a color headshot with guest columns.

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