I hope not. Schools must no longer teach actual history in Arizona. State law bans classes that are primarily designed for a particular ethnic group or that “promote resentment toward a race or class of…
Posts Published by Douglas Storm
Douglas Storm is a host and producer for Interchange on Bloomington, Indiana's community radio station WFHB.
"Why then do you try to 'enlarge' your mind? Subtilize it..."
State of the School Corporation: Roll Over and Play Dead
In Bloomington recently the new (7 months on the job) Superintendent offered a kind of State of the School Corporation address and our local paper chose to offer mostly pictures of the event rather than…
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Respecting a Hymn While Degrading Being, OR Right-Wing Morality Bred in the Bone
Yesterday I attached a brief note to the post on the Parent Trigger (turning public schools into charter schools via parent vote) about proposed legislation in Indiana to limit and penalize “embellishment” when singing the…
Indiana’s David Wolkins: One of ALEC’s 2011 Legislators of the Year
Below is by no means a comprehensive accounting of the flippant Duke Energy puppet, David Wolkins, but it should serve to illustrate why the system will never be fixed but likely must be burned to…
The Parent Trigger Trap
This from a piece in the the Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY and Southern Indiana) titled “Bill would give Indiana parents ability to convert schools to charters,” about the so-called “Parent Trigger.” As a nod to my…
Errant Essays Re-Posted at Schools Matter
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Against Oligarchical Roundtables In Education (and really, everywhere else too)
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow It’s that simple really. All we do now is ask the wrong questions and…
The Principal is not your Pal: Backstabbing as Pedagogy
From the Bloomington Herald-Times this morning (1/9/2012) comes this betrayal of learning and education. I had intended to simply excerpt but it is too valuable as an example of the way the Project Loving Capital…
The Loss of Soul: Corrupting Language and Stealing Common Understanding
Today our newspaper editorialized that the “fight’ over “right-to-work” legislation “should just go away” (seriously, that’s the headline). Here’s their primary argument: The so-called “right-to-work” issue has already disrupted the Indiana General Assembly. The Republicans’…