Here’s my take on the how the world unfolds. We are moving toward climate disaster. We are moving toward global cultural “synchronization.” We are moving toward global mercenary militarization. We are moving toward a “burning” earth. We are moving toward the end. I am less than hopeful that a catastrophe that is truly Biblical will be averted. Because, in my theory of how the world…
Is There a More Bigoted State in the US than Arizona?
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 people.” Last week, state Supt. of Public Instruction John Huppenthal ruled the Tucson program in violation. The board chose not to contest his decision in court. You gotta love that. …
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 any analysis. Here is a link (pay-wall) to the “news” of the event, “MCCSC superintendent DeMuth outlines school progress in State of the Corporation address.” There is, however, no news…
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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 US National Anthem, that lovely old hymn to violence against “unfair” taxation (freedom?) called “The Star-Spangled Banner” (catchy, anything with “spangles” in it has real style). Here’s what the GOP…
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 a blackened char. Let us be clear. You are now being managed by ALEC. David Wolkins, like so many others in the states and the federal government, represents the interests…
Twist the Barrel: Opposing ALEC’s Parent Trigger in Indiana
Disarmament sculpture at the UN* (Please use the following as a template to email to your Indiana congresspeople now.) Yesterday, the Parent Trigger bill passed an Indiana House committee. Although Rep. Rhonda Rhoads’ House Bill 1219 has her name on it, the Parent Trigger bill was written and supported by the Heartland Institute and ALEC, the anti-public education, anti-union, anti-regulation, Koch brothers funded group also…
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 favorite local school board member (you know who you are), I wish this were about Parent Tiggers. That would make the world a much happier place. Parents could vote to…
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 get irrelevant answers because the questions determine the direction we’ll be heading. The Pynchon quote comes from the stunningly simple book by Kathy Emery and Susan Ohanian called Why Is…