Letters to the Editor
Tom Shown: No alternative to Common Core
Regarding Lt. Gov. Dan Forest’s comments in the June 5 article on the Common Core State Standards and his related YouTube video: I do appreciate his concern and apprehension of the CCSS being implemented in our state.
Letters to the Editor
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
JoAnn Warn: No thinkers wanted
In regard to the June 5 news article “Forest no fan of Common Core”: I can find nothing in these Common Core standards that any educator, legislator, parent or citizen could object to.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Ken Jones: A thankless job
The controversial new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality tries to shock us with its findings that our brightest students do not seek admission to schools of education, and those who do graduate from education programs are ill-prepared to teach our most demanding students (“...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Cameron Figuers: Removing incentive
As a college senior and potential graduate student applicant, the idea that the GOP government is scheduled to cut the pay-grade increase for public school teachers who earn master’s degrees is misguided.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Steve Lough: How about ‘Free Fallin’ ’?
I feel it is my civic duty to educate Gov. “I didn’t know that! Pat” McCrory about his favorite song, “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Gordon Uscier: Tax facts not relevant
Just two quick points on Marc Landry’s June 12 column “Our dubious No. 1 rank: in tax rate.”
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Chris Lowell: Gun bill will help
We should agree that our existing political system and government are a direct result of taking up arms against Great Britain years ago. This happened because firearms existed then, as now.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Roy Brock: Fiscally feckless
In Marc Landry’s June 12 column, he seemed to hold up California as a much better state than North Carolina when comparing state income taxes his daughter would have paid if she were still living in North Carolina against what she paid in California. Landry should have done more research.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dennis Brown: NCBC making difference
I read in the June 17 N&O that the N.C. legislature proposes to defund the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (“GOP rolls back Democratic era”).
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Robert Dalton: N.C. in tax middle
I read with interest the writing of your new columnist, Marc Landry, in his June 12 piece “Our dubious No. 1 rank: in tax rate.”
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Fred Crouch: Don’t abort task force
I hope no one misses the sad, ironic hypocrisy of our Republican legislature seeking to protect every fertilized egg while simultaneously aborting the mission of the Child Fatality Task Force.
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