CORE: Don't buy the propaganda

Re: Melanie Vander Feer’s Jan. 31 column (“Don’t let them indoctrinate our children”) about education’s Common Core: I am reminded of a line from Ken Follett’s latest novel, The Edge of Eternity: “The greater the ignorance, the stronger the opinion.” Vander Feer certainly had some strong opinions.

Idaho consistently scores down at the bottom, along with Mississippi, in educational achievement. What Vander Feer did was not only a disservice to the truth, but a disservice to our children. She took a page out of the playbooks of Joseph Goebbels and Rush Limbaugh. At least the Coeur d’Alene Press gave space to Rod Gramer to refute, not rebut, everything she said.

JOHN STROBEL

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