Our bubblin' cauldron

.....THE DVORMAN CASE. There’s a marvelous story in today’s OC Weekly about Capo Valley High School teacher James Corbett. You’ll recall that he and his district are being sued over Corbett's approach to teaching (remember “Jesus Glasses”?), which has got some Christians’ panties in a knot. (See Capo Valley High's James Corbett Isn't the First Local Educator to Face OC's Cultural Conservatives.)
.....This Corbett fellow is interesting:

The veteran history teacher...has taught at the university level in Beirut, Missouri, North Carolina and locally at Saddleback College. He has a Ph.D. in journalism from Ohio State University and wrote his dissertation on terrorism in 1970s Belfast. While teaching at the American University of Beirut in the mid-’80s, Corbett experienced “days of 155mm artillery bombardments,” he says. “I left after one academic year. The next year, all the faculty were kidnapped.”....

.....The OC Weekly's Altan and Arellano compare the Corbett case to the somewhat similar Joel Samuel Dvorman case of nearly fifty years ago. It was the Dvorman case, they explain, that set our beloved county down the path to being that special place where John Schmitz types are under every other rock. (Anyone who reads the letters to the OC Reg knows that, alas, these people are still among us.)
.....About Dvorman:

He ran for and won a seat on the Magnolia School District Board of Trustees in 1960...But Dvorman immediately proved unpopular. One of his first actions was to vote against a measure proposed by Magnolia’s other trustees to distribute Bibles in schools. For a district that had just desegregated five years earlier—long after the historic 1948 case Mendez v. Westminster ended segregation in Orange County elementary schools—this new trustee was too much for some parents: a liberal Jew who was a member of the ACLU and openly participated in protests against the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).

.....Trust me, the article is terrific.

.....FACULTY CONTRACT. Things are happening re the faculty contract, although the non-availability of some key players isn't making things easy! I don’t want to mess anything up here, so I’ll just say that, based on what I know, people should hang tight and let things play out a bit. [UPDATE: the union is recommending work-to-contract, effective immediately.]

.....ESCORTED OFF CAMPUS? This afternoon, I ran into a reliable sort who had talked to an equally reliable sort who spoke to someone who "knew" that Vice Chancellor of Human Resources, Bob King, was “escorted” off of campus today. “How do you know?”, I asked. The answer makes me think that it may well be true. [UPDATE: TOTALLY FALSE RUMOR.]
.....What gives? Anybody out there got the facts?
.....In any case, these days, the ol’ SOCCCD seems like some kinda bubblin' cauldron, don't it?