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Letters to the Editor: Saturday, June 1, 2024

Students at Middletown's Highview 6th Grade Center recently put together a taco meal presentation for local business leaders and the adults came away sated and impressed. After learning about the fields of business, marketing and management, students in Marnie Kash's class applied their knowledge to running their own business, which in this case, is "Highview Top of the Tacos." Local businesses and community organizations helped with some business people also serving as judges. CONTRIBUTED

Students at Middletown's Highview 6th Grade Center recently put together a taco meal presentation for local business leaders and the adults came away sated and impressed. After learning about the fields of business, marketing and management, students in Marnie Kash's class applied their knowledge to running their own business, which in this case, is "Highview Top of the Tacos." Local businesses and community organizations helped with some business people also serving as judges. CONTRIBUTED
Ideas & Voices
June 1, 2024
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Lessons featuring food are great ways to teach as the students at Middletown’s Highview Sixth Grade Center and their teacher, Marnie Kash, proved with their mini taco bars, as recently highlighted in Michael D. Clark’s May 22 article. The tacos judged by local business leaders advanced student understanding of opening a business, using higher level thinking and acquiring life skills such as teamwork, creativity and problem solving.

Super life lessons for the kids to learn!

As a society we have found it’s extremely valuable to teach students lessons applicable to their future family’s income.

Congress is currently considering the Farm Bill. One of its programs, Food for Peace, provides farmers education to support communities susceptible to recurring shocks to food and nutrition security throughout the world. These changes adapted to farmers’ needs offer new thinking skills and more resiliency for staying in their homeland.

The southwest Ohio Catholic Relief Services Chapter has been well-received in sharing our concerns with Representatives Warren Davidson, Greg Landsmen and Mike Turner and Senators Sherrod Brown and J.D. Vance in advocating for the Farm Bill with its Food for Peace program.

We oppose the American Farmers Feed the World Act, proposed for inclusion in the Farm Bill, because it would effectively strip Food for Peace’s ability to respond to a communities’ needs.

Teaching people to provide for their families and the community is a great lesson to learn here at home and around the world. We encourage our members of Congress to safeguard Food for Peace in the Farm Bill.

- Pam Long, Hamilton

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