Episode 47 of Blabbermouth looks at how Seattle gave up on busing and allowed its public schools to become alarmingly resegregated. Also discussed: Marti Jonjaks Inside Witness project and what to do this weekend. (Wanna subscribe to the show on iTunes? Right here.)
Episode 47 of Blabbermouth looks at how Seattle gave up on busing and allowed its public schools to become alarmingly resegregated. Also discussed: Marti Jonjak's "Inside Witness" project and what to do this weekend. (Wanna subscribe to the show on iTunes? Right here.) wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock


Blabbermouth April 15, 2016

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How did Seattle’s public schools become alarmingly resegregated in recent years? Sean Riley, a Seattle public school teacher and the author of an amazing feature in this week’s Stranger, is on the show to explain. At 1:37, Sean talks about all that's changed between the time he attended integrated Seattle public schools as a student and today, when he teaches in a mostly white public school in Magnolia.

After that, at 13:16, writer Marti Jonjak is on to talk about her McSweeney’s project, “Inside Witness.” It’s a regular column that’s in the process of exploring the 2013 shooting at the Central District bar Twilight Exit from multiple perspectives—including Marti's own perspective as someone who was in the bar as the shooting occurred.

Then, at 24:29, Stranger Things To Do director Jamie Slater is back to tell us what to do this weekend. Plus, as always, the music of Ahamefule J. Oluo!