Hiding From The School Bus With Calvin Bagley

About this episode

Calvin Bagley shares his experiences of growing up in isolation and fear in rural Utah, where he was taught to hide from the school bus to avoid revealing his lack of education.

#232 - You think you know someone, then you hear what they had to survive. Calvin Bagley looks like the guy with the steady career and the good family, but as a kid he was literally taught to hide when the school bus came by so no one would discover he wasn’t being educated at all. We talk through Calvin’s childhood in rural Utah with isolation, fear, and extremist beliefs that kept the world at a distance, plus the strange whiplash of showing up to church on Sundays and then returning to wh...

People in this episode

Host: Jake Bushman

Guest: Calvin Bagley

Topics covered

• childhood
• education
• isolation
• extremist beliefs
• personal stories

Keywords

• Calvin Bagley
• school bus
• education
• isolation
• extremist beliefs
• rural Utah
• personal stories

Mentioned in this episode

Places: rural Utah

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