Actions speak louder than words, Dorn
I am writing in response to the gall of Randy Dorn, the state superintendent of public instruction, saying his experience getting a DUI is a teachable moment. [“School Chief Dorn pleads guilty to DUI charge,” NWSaturday, April 3.]
Indeed, if he had the self-awareness to realize his privilege as a white, male public official enabled him to get his jail sentence reduced from a year to a day, it might be. Again, if he had actually taken the high road, as his attorney suggested he did, and had his license suspended for two years and not 90 days, the teachable moment might have some credibility.
Instead he has been offered the easy way out — the road not available to the majority of students and families in the schools he represents. The disconnect is appalling.
Sadly, Dorn exhibits neither the realism nor the cynicism required for his statement about the teachability of the moment to have any validity.
— Jeanne Morel, Seattle