My wrap-up on the 2024 school-board election, starting from a small note from Florida with a big tie-in to Caledonia. It’s all about this question: should school-board elections be partisan or nonpartisan? Education won a small victory in Florida, where education very much needs some victories: voters rejected an initiative to make school board electionsContinue reading “2024 election wrap-up: Caledonia (MI) Community Schools”
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Again with “parental rights”: the return of a dog whistle
Here we go again. Campaign by dog whistle. How much did it cost Jessica Kohn to spam her little campaign plug into my iMessages account? And who paid for it? But she sent it to me, and I will respond. The first sentence of the message in the screenshot carries all the weight: Jessica KohnContinue reading “Again with “parental rights”: the return of a dog whistle”
What do you mean when you say someone is “speaking in code”?
Some critics of our schools, including some candidates for school board, speak in code. Speaking in code is an evasion and a subversion. It is an evasion in that people do it to avoid taking responsibility for that they are saying. It is a subversion because it undermines the usefulness of language.
Verba Sparsa 