Excerpt from the Ohio Capitol Journal
Ohio universities’ new centers created by Republican lawmakers to combat “liberal bias” aren’t popular with students, so now the Republican state lawmaker who authored the law that created them wants to require attendance.
Bringing in America’s 250th anniversary, the Republican supermajority in Ohio’s legislature wants to expand civics education at colleges and universities. That hasn’t been getting the warmest of welcomes on campuses.
For years, college students from around the state, specifically Ohio State, have fought back against the GOP-created higher education reform.
“It ignores certain realities of what higher education is, what it stands for,” Ohio State student D’Laveance Bert-Sims told us.
Students say they want real education, not what Sabrina Estevez calls propaganda.
“I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding with what indoctrination actually is,” Estevez said.
