My Incisively Analytical Responses to Session Feedback for the North Star Accountability System Kick Off in September 2018: Observations on an Exercise in Minnesota Department of Education Professional Incompetence and Moral Irresponsibility

The following are my incisively analytical responses on the form for Session Feedback for the North Star Accountability System Kick Off in September 2018 that I attended on 24 September 2018:

 

MN Department of Education

Session Feedback – North Star School and District Accountability Kick Off – September 2018

Location __MDE Conference Room B_________  

Date _____24 September 2018______________

Name (Optional) ___Gary Marvin Davison_____

                                   Please circle your responses below:

Strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A), Disagree (D), or Strongly Disagree (SD)


[Note:  Given the typed form of my responses, I put an "X" in the indicated areas in lieu of circling]

I have a deeper understanding of:     SA     A     D     SD

 

Minnesota’s North Star                          X

Accountability System

 

Support and improvement                    X

requirements and timeline

 

Available supports and resources       X

for identified district and schools

 

2)  List your top 3 takeaways from

      the session today:

 

       1]  The session was a formality to meet the strictures of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the latter of which was passed by members of the United States Congress under pressure from both the political left and the political right, for whom objective assessments under No Child Left Behind had respectively revealed embarrassing failures on the part of the nation’s public schools or presented opportunity to undermine the premises upon which public schools are founded:  For the left, under pressure from the likes of the National Education Association, Education Minnesota, and the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, the failures of locally centralize school systems throughout the United States and in Minnesota to provide anything remotely resembling an adequate education had become too embarrassing;  and for the right, the embarrassments actually became a delight for the corporate crowd that wants public education to fail and an opportunity to reassert a state’s rights stance in order to give privatization more scope to undermine the provision of education by locally centralized school districts.

 

     2]  You met ESSA strictures through the North Star Accountability System, which is just an update on the Multiple Measurement Rating System (MMRS), which the Brenda Cassellius-led Minnesota Department of Education  (MDE) articulated after a second application securing a waiver from No Child Left Behind under the federal Race to the Top program;  the North Star Accountability System is similar to MMRS inasmuch as it takes the focus away from objective assessments that reveal embarrassing results and gives failing school systems a chance to demonstrate a bit of improvement on those assessments while also gaining rating for attendance, graduation rates, and progress for English learners.

 

     3]  The variously clueless or prevaricating assemblage of four MDE staff members attempted to sell this ruse to the public at the 24 September meeting, but the public was as usual mostly absent, so that the meeting was full of members of the education establishment with keen interest in assisting MDE in foisting this hoax on the public;  the representatives of Minnesota’s school districts and staff members of the MDE are all too eager to continue to deliver a wretched quality of education to the K-12 students of Minnesota without paying any consequences.

 

3)  What aspect(s) of the day

      was/were most beneficial?

 

      The most beneficial aspects of the 24 September 2018 meeting were confirming that the North Star Accountability System is just a smokescreen behind which will be continued failure and therefore my own responsibility to detail the lies being told by MDE staff in foisting this fraud on the students of Minnesota;  and observing the verbal ineptitude and professional incompetence on display by Michael Diedrich and the other presenters.

 

4)  What are your next steps when leaving

      this meeting?

 

     My next steps upon leaving the meeting are to reveal the subtext behind the delivered message of the dissembling presenters at the 24 September 2018 meeting, discussing these on my blog, on my television show, (The K-12 Revolution with Dr. Gary Marvin Davison [6:00 PM every Wednesday on Minneapolis Telecommunications Network, Channel 17 in Minneapolis]), in my academic journal (Journal of the K-12 Revolution:  Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota), and in my public appearances.

 

5)  Additional Comments:

 

You know that the North Star Accountability System cannot work and that you are just meeting legal requirements in promoting this ruse.  I will with relentless presentation of factual detail expose your professional incompetence and dissembling protection of your publicly funded sinecures of employment.