John Deasy Looks Good on Paper … But the Paper is Suspect

EDUCATION POLITICS-A 4LAKids reader emailed me last week, as the revelation that Superintendent Deasy had ‘lawyered up” and was calling for investigations of the Board of Ed’s emails with technology vendors broke. He suggested the line: “Let all the poison that lurks in the mud hatch out” from Robert Graves’ novel “I Claudius” be the title/theme of this week’s essay/rant/screed.

I took the suggestion to heart. Graves is a beacon; a WWI battlefield poet who survived the horror of English boarding schools and the trenches. Graves was a poet-wordsmith of the highest order who lived a very complicated life and wrote poetry+prose that blur the definitions of both – who wrote of the politics of the Roman Empire, the British Empire and the bedroom - and did so with equal measures of artfulness and wit and truth and ink. (Read the rest here)  

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CityWatch

Vol 12 Issue 75

Pub: Sep 16, 2014