Dear Ms. Washo
I
preferred the "turkey cover" over the tattooed man. That said, I write
about another subject: the inappropriateness of Frank Dunne, Jr.'s
column in CH2, a magazine designed to acquaint readers with the many
services and providers in the Hilton Head area.
Mr.
Dunne labeled the national Common Core education standards "a stupid
idea" simply because President Obama is a supporter. He then called
Common Core "a bunch of B.S." and said we know this because it is a
"federal program." He later refers to the U.S., Department of Education
as the "Department of Non-Education," and says its employees are
"clowns."
Mr.
Dunne is disrespectful to the President of the United States,
dismissive of Common Core simply because it is a federal program and
insulting to the many fine people who work for his, yours and my
government. (Fair disclosure: I am a retired federal security director.)
It
is immaterial that a column in support of Common Core was in space
opposite Mr. Dunne's disrespectful and obnoxious comments.
I don't object to Mr. Dunne having such views, and some of his comments might be
appropriate in a political column on the op-ed page of a newspaper, or
some other place pandering to the extreme rightists in our beloved
country, but they have no business in a magazine with the obvious goal
of CH2.
Obviously,
I cannot pick and chose what items flesh out this 120 page advertising
medium but I can ignore it in the future and encourage others to do so.
