Brenda Cassellius, Michael Diedrich, and All Staff Members at the Minnesota Department of Education Must Realize the Consequences of Your Prevarication at the 24 September 2018 Meeting >>>>> I Will Now Be in Even Greater Search of the Factual Details Pertinent to Your Fraudulent Claims

At 6:00 PM on Monday, 24 September, in Conference Center B at the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), Michael Diedrich and other MDE prevaricators made a big mistake in their handling of the meeting and for the fraudulent claims made therein.

 

Their efforts represent one more hoax inflicted on the K-12 students of Minnesota in the form of their North Star Accountability System (described in full as you scroll down through previous recent entries on this blog), now being foisted on the public as the latest failed proclamation hailing a program that nevertheless has no chance of raising academic performance of Minnesota students.  Minnesota State Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius and aide Michael Diedrich both know that they are just putting on a dissembling performance, yet they persist in inflicting this ruse on the K-12 students of Minnesota, and on of those who make at least some show of caring, because they must by law make some response to the dictums of the Every Student Succeeds Act.

 

Student performance in the public K-12 systems of Minnesota during the eight years of the Governor Mark Dayton administration (for which Cassellius has served as academic agent of destruction) has languished at a wretched level of proficiency.  In this context of defending the indefensible, Cassellius and her inept aides are now making the rounds in an attempt to sell their ruse to the public.

 

Cassellius was absent from the meeting on 24 September.  She and Diedrich had the heads up that I would be calling them on their dissembling antics.  Cassellius most likely stayed away to avoid my tough questions, in cowardice leaving Diedrich to deal with my abundant knowledge base and thorough mastery of factual detail.  If Cassellius would now claim otherwise, my challenge remains:  Meet me in a refereed debate according to formal rules of disputation.  Or remain cowed in cowardly silence.

 

When I asked those tough questions, Diedrich and his even more inept MDE associates tried to make the case that I was disrupting their meeting.  They had glided glibly through an easy evening until I asked those questions as this charade slipped over the one-hour point:  Diedrich and company had received only perfunctory questions from the audience of less than 50, full of education establishment types from the school districts of Minnesota and those at the MDE there to protect their well-remunerated sinecures.  So when I asked if they lived in a fantasy world or were frankly perpetrating the North Star Accountability System hoax on the students of Minnesota, they were trapped and they panicked.

 

Cassellius and her lackeys should now be on notice:  As busy as I am putting the finishing flourishes to my book, Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools:  Current Condition, Future Prospect, I will now be collecting a bevy of factual information that will fully reveal your ineptitude and your dishonesty.  I will over time reveal your incompetence and prevarication as relentlessly as I have pursued the truth about the inner workings of the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS).  And since Superintendent Ed Graff and many top MPS administrators have actually made many improvements in the administration and programming of this school district while my investigation has been underway, I expect the MDE to fare much worse.

 

Do realize this, Commissioner Cassellius, Michael Diedrich,  and all staff members at the Minnesota Department of Education:  I am now in unswerving pursuit of the facts pertinent to your pretensions.  You have nowhere to hide.  You are trapped:

 

Start telling the truth, or face dire public consequences.