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Thank you for these comments. You are SO right. The booing on the House floor was completely out of order. It’s surprising it was not gaveled down immediately and a caucus called to remind members of House rules. The Speaker is in his first year as Speaker and has acknowledged a need for more control of such situations.
The behavior is just one issue of concern. The other is the legislation itself. Indiana already has an open enrollment statute permitting parents to transfer from one public school district to another without paying transfer tuition. That legislation raised the same racial concerns a few years ago. To let whole neighborhoods in white suburbs transfer from a mixed race to an all white school district rubs salt in the wounds.
Sadly our state legislature is going backwards in racial relations. For a decade, state policy and appropriations have drained funds from public schools which accept all children to fund charter and private schools that discriminate in enrollment, student services, and curricular offerings. Children and adults from different racial, ethnic, and socio-economic groups don’t learn to live together via state-sanctioned segregation.
Basic decorum and decency have diminished. The precipitous decline over the last several years is clear. But, now is the time to return the Statehouse, if not Congress, to a respectable forum for conversation and debate.
Free speech. Freedom to express opinions. Free exchange of ideas. Purposeful legislation to benefit all citizens. Is this too much to ask? Is it not what citizens deserve? Is is not what citizens should demand.
Indiana is not stellar in many areas. Mediocracy seems to be the mantra for too many in the Statehouse. And, legislative assaults on the poor and those with differing views have grown. Local control is being ransacked by totalitarian actions, yet those promulgating questionable if not inane laws decry hooliganism, socialism, and communism in a veiled attempt to disguise not-like-me-ism. Equal rights and equal access should be a paramount objective for schools, for safety, for policing. Decades have passed without significant improvement in providing equality in the aforementioned areas. As the we against them chasm of widens, problems will increase.
This is the time to embrace dialogue and enhance communication to achieve long-term viability for all citizens in all areas of the state — even those you don’t like. Vengeful, vindictive and vile actions have no place in sound government.