Cristo Rey can teach us something
Amid deplorable outcomes, many public school district representatives prattle on the same old tired mantras about never having enough money and lacking parental support for education, with a healthy dose of charter school-bashing by union spokespersons who cling doggedly to their failing status quo.
While there are only 47 graduates of Cristo Rey Columbus High School, they are all admitted to at least one college for fall 2017 (“Parade of honor,” Dispatch article, Thursday). According to the Ohio Department of Education’s most recent report card, Columbus City Schools received an “F” in 5 out of 6 categories, graduating 73 percent of its students in four years.
History dictates that failing schools simply need another expensive multiyear longitudinal study, or a collaboration with a trendy new think tank composed of like-minded educators. I am not suggesting that the problems facing our public schools are simple or few. What I am suggesting is that a measure of their solutions may be no less complicated than observing and replicating at least part of what is going at Cristo Rey Columbus High School.
Christopher Dalheim Galena we don’t act quickly the child could require a breathing tube or even die. Unfortunately, in 2017 it’s not uncommon for a child to pass away from an asthma attack.
One in seven Ohio children will have asthma. This may be your own child. The same air pollutants which are causing climate change increase irritation in a child’s lungs, and warmer climate is increasing pollen levels: both are common triggers of asthma. Unfortunately, Ohio already has high levels of these pollutants. This a problem now, not 100 years in the future.
Every major scientific organization in the world agrees that climate change is real and man-made. It’s important to recognize that the anti-environmental policies the Trump administration is implementing will only worsen the bad air our children are breathing. The public has two choices: 1) agree that climate change is real and vote for lawmakers who believe in strong science, or 2) go back to school to become health-care professionals.
We’ll need the extra help as common but serious health problems continue to increase with climate change.
Dr. Jacob Little Columbus and actions of Donald Trump, from candidate to president. The answer should be very clear by now: The office makes the person.
The art of the “deal” in the private sector is much different than the art of the deal in the Oval Office. It’s not a oneperson show. I was turned off by all the changing back and forth of conflicting opinions until, by chance, I saw a clipping that simply stated: “Don’t panic. Trust God.”
My faith is restored. It is refreshingly surprising that Trump’s recent military moves happened around Easter time. Upper Arlington