The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: school board

  • How to Fight a Book Ban

    Make sharing these books your mission.

  • Unwanted Legacies: The Shame that is Nathan B. Forrest High School

    Here in Jacksonville, Florida, we have a high school named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, a confederate general who led the massacre of African American union soldiers at Fort Pillow and was one of the earliest members of the Ku Klux Klan. That school was named based on the recommendations of the Daughters of the Confederacy,…

  • Tilting at Windmills

    Sometimes when I’m just waking, a phrase percolates up from my subconscious. Today it was “tilting at windmills”. What am I trying to tell myself? Am I, like Don Quixote, fighting a ridiculous battle? Am I getting unnecessarily agitated? Am I ignoring someone who is trying to talk sense into me? Maybe I should wear…