What's the Matter with Michigan?
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So--on this Thanksgiving weekend, I'm trying to be more grateful for what's working fine. I'm also trying not to be angry so often. There's a lot to be angry about, from Black Friday and Wal-Mart, to the fact that my teaching colleagues make 1/225th what the average CEO makes.
Big things to get steamed about. Little things to irritate. Mostly, what I'm stressing over this weekend, however, is Michigan, my Michigan--and the Big Scary Plan to gut public funding of community schools by "unbundling" (a euphemism if there ever was one) the services public schools traditionally provide.
It's a complex issue (which makes it even more dangerous). In a nutshell, the proposed Michigan Public