Welcome to the DPS Chalkboard

Hi, I’m Duane McCoskey.  I’m using this Substack forum to express my views about Decatur Public Schools #61.  I’m working (mostly) alone, but I do have a few people that help me write my articles.

Originally, I intended to call my Substack “DPS Report Card”, but honestly, I think that sounds like I have all the answers and want to sit in judgement of the great people that work in the school district.  That is simply not the case.  I want to advance ideas that others might be thinking, but don’t have a forum to get them across.  I like to research problems and discuss solutions.  In the future I hope to develop relationships (I already have a few) with Central Administration and Board Members, to allow me to write and report news and ideas from the inside, just as a great newspaper article would.

Comments on what we post here will always be welcomed. They are the fuel for future articles. However, we do reserve the right to delete comments that aren’t productive. Our goal is to have an open, honest and critical (when necessary) discussion about our schools and their impact on the community in which we live.