HIGHER ED: Republican Party shows hypocrisy

Recently I read that the Idaho Republican Party platform does not support public funding of higher education. And yet, they chose to have a meeting in the Schuler Performing Arts Center Auditorium on the campus of North Idaho College. That is the epitome of hypocrisy (the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform).

When a Republican needs a physician, surgeon, nurse or a teacher next time, they might consider asking them if they used public education at the beginning of their educational journey.

Community colleges are an affordable way to begin any profession. Public support of Idaho higher education benefits all citizens and businesses.

MARY J. MERRILL

Coeur d’Alene