I am not a Facebook member. I am a retired CIA officer, and that is not our thing. However, I have two grandchildren, and this is for them. Example: The ER staff at the Dallas hospital that turned away the Ebola patient was ignorant of simple geography that I learned in sixth grade CORE learning on Long Island in 1959. President Obama had not been born yet.

The patient’s statement that he had just come from Liberia didn’t register. They didn’t keep up on world medical news. Doctors without Borders warned the U.N. last January that Ebola had exceeded their capacity. My point is that the ER staff’s ignorance multiplied into fear all over this country. Politicians played on that ignorance or were ignorant as well.

My oldest granddaughter excelled and exceeded standards on the third grade CORE tests. If parents want to pull out of CORE because they think the work is too hard for their children, and their child failed the first test last year, those parents should go look in the mirror and figure out where they failed.

They also need to face the fact that the children who have CORE learning will continue to get the better jobs. U.S. companies like Microsoft will continue to bring in young people from foreign countries to fill positions that Arizona students do not qualify for due to educational deficiencies.

I seem to recall that Arizona businesses warned Governor elect-Ducey that they weren’t going to hire unqualified high school graduates anymore.

Ebola was a true wake-up call. There is a big wide world out there, and being isolationist and ignorant isn’t going to cut it anymore anywhere. Do those who voted for Diane Douglas have any conception how behind educationally Arizona really is? Recall her ASAP.