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Mar
17
It’s Bigger than Ogden
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I had a meeting this morning with our superintendent—it was about tattoos and the dress code and the media and students and protests and family and doing what is right versus what is legal. It was a very civil conversation. My sleeves are still down, buttoned at the wrist, not much talk of “grandfather clauses” or changing policy, but discussion is far better than disdain.
The other day I was interviewed by the Associated Press, and the next day I was in the Chicago Tribune—weird. This morning a colleague heard the story on NPR—whoa. I talked to my wife about it and she agreed with me that this story has very little to do with me, or the Ogden School District, and more to do with control and self-expression, power and diversity, legally right and ethically right.
I would love to analyze this one day, but not today. Today it is too close and out of focus. It’s just a matter of defending what you think is right and holding your ground and letting what happens, happen.
