Teachers’ unions standing in way of science, reopening of schools
Monday’s editorial “Opening schools back up is an urgent priority,” about how districts can use science from the CDC, WHO and research from Ohio State University to safely open schools, was great.
It is too bad there was not enough space left in the editorial to explain how teachers’ unions – not teachers – are pushing back against following the science and actively working to keep schools closed.
Gary L. Sigrist Jr., Grove City
LONOKE, Ark. – An Arkansas police officer who was shot multiple times during a confrontation at a fast-food restaurant with a man suspected of kidnapping a 14-year-old North Carolina girl was expected to make a full recovery, authorities said.
Lonoke Police Officer Cody Carpenter and another officer confronted the suspect, William Robert Ice, 38, of Jackson Center, Pennsylvania, outside of a Mcdonald’s restaurant Saturday in Lonoke, about 27 miles east of Little Rock.
Police said Ice began shooting at the officers, striking Carpenter. The other officer returned fire and Ice drove away, but police eventually found him critically injured in his vehicle from a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound, Arkansas State Police said. Ice later died at a Little Rock hospital.