To the editor: Stand for parent rights
Take a stand for the future of your children by taking advantage of school voucher program.
Wed, 22 Jan 2020 05:00:00 GMT
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The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled three times that Ohio’s public-school funding system based on property taxes is unconstitutional.
If the school systems want more money, then provide a product that is worth funding. You wouldn’t continue to eat at a restaurant that made you ill. Why should parents be expected to send their children to a failing system?
If you want more money then find a way to legally fund it. Then provide a successful product. Failure is not all on the student and parent.
The students are our children, our future. As a parent you get one chance to get it right. Our dollars, our children, our choice to use the school vouchers.
Parents, it is time to take a stand for your children’s future.
PATTY SCHISSLER
Sylvania
Waiting for pens
Now we know why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi waited so long to deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
It was the order lead time for the commemorative pens.
DAVID HOLZ
Monclova Township
Judges are human
I have followed your coverage of the travails of Judge Alfonso Gonzalez, beginning with his arrest for driving under the influence and the ensuing consequences, including editorials from this paper.
Judge Gonzalez made two mistakes that night: driving and playing the judge card. Were he not intoxicated, I firmly believe that he would not have tried to use his position to escape prosecution. That showed an uncharacteristic lack of judgement.
Had Judge Gonzalez not been intoxicated, I believe that his conduct would have been without comment apart from the incident itself. Judges are folk; they make mistakes. In all my years of knowing Judge Gonzalez as opposing counsel and in appearing before him in court, although I may not always have agreed with him, I understood his conduct and respected his judgment.
There is an element of grace that should be applied here.
KEITHLEY SPARROW
West Toledo
Public concerned
Whoop-de-doo, it’s impeachment time. Who cares, other than the press, Democrats who can not accept Hillary’s defeat, and die-hard Trump supporters who think he walks on water.
And what a crime. One U.S. politician using his high office to pressure the leader of a foreign government, Ukraine, to reveal how another high-placed U.S. politician, Vice President Joe Biden, used his high office to pressure the same foreign leader to do his bidding.
What was good for the gander (Mr. Biden) is not evidently good for the goose (President Trump).
This whole exercise by Congress is a prime example of an organization “majoring in the minors.” Untold hours and untold resources have been expended for this politically motivated fiasco while legitimate concerns go unaddressed.
Most people are more concerned with when Congress is going to deal with health care, gun violence, immigration reform, climate change, the opioid epidemic, just to name a few outstanding issues.
Is it any wonder then that Congress is held in such low esteem, even lower than the President?
JOHN M. STEWART
Monclova Township