Article #5
Concluding Comments
Exposing the Hoax of the
Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)
North Star Accountability System
Via Responses to the MDE’s
Own Questionnaire
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
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.
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.
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.
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