>Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools: Current Condition, Future Prospect<: Exposing the Intellectual and Moral Deficiency of >Star Tribune< Staff, Along with Those Same Qualities in So Many Others in the Murky World of K-12 Education

Over the last half-decade, a dozen or more of my articles have appeared in the Opinion Pages of the Star Tribune.  Although Opinion Pages editor Doug Tice and his staff a few months ago did publish one of my counterpoints to an article by that articulator of vacuous positions on education, Ted Kolderie, the last article of mine that Tice and colleagues published with any enthusiasm was A Tale of Two Girards, a masterfully written piece that addressed the economic disparities in Minneapolis and the role that the abominable quality of education in the Minneapolis Public Schools plays in maintaining those disparities.

 

That article was brilliantly written and elegantly insightful and recognized by Tice and staff as such;  but the article was one of those that focus on the dilemmas, not the solutions.  Since that time, about a year ago, when I penned that opinion piece, I have sent many articles to Tice and staff that analyze the failures of people and processes at the Minneapolis Public Schools and those at colleges, universities, journalistic institutions, political and governmental organizations, and the general public that serve to maintain our terrible public urban schools in the United States as they are.

 

This hits home in taking those at the Star Tribune to task for the role that they play in maintaining the corrupt status quo by assigning unseasoned and mediocre journalists such as Faiza Mahamud to the Minneapolis education beat and by giving appearance of coziness with the education establishment that imposes the catastrophic system of K-12 education on our precious children.

 

This is the sort of intellectual and moral corruption that I am exposing in many quarters with the presentation of my book, Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools:  Current Condition, Future Prospect, with prospective presentation to the general public (much of the work is already entered on my blog) on 1 May (May Day) 2019.         

 

In the context rendered above, please proceed to this letter via email that I just sent to Opinion Pages editor Doug Tice, editorial chief Scott Gillespie, and Opinion Pages staff at the Star Tribune.

 

March 28, 2019

 

Doug and Star Tribune Opinion Pages staff---

 

The attached article has gotten record-setting hits on my blog from a rapidly ascending network of followers who know that I possess nonpareil knowledge of K-12 education in the United States generally and in Minneapolis particularly.  Were Diane Ravitch to debate me under formal rules of disputation, she would walk away with knees knocking and legs buckling.

 

I have no lingering faith in the powers of you at Star Tribune Opinion Pages to recognize high quality articles on education when staring right into them and, as is the case with so many in the murky world of K-12 education that I am investigating for my book, Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools: Current Condition, Future Prospect, I have narrowed my questions concerning your manifest discernment as follows:

 

1)  Are they really that ignorant?

 

2) Are they in deep denial?

 

3)  Or are they as intellectually and morally corrupt as they appear?

 

Do see the attachment and publish this most recent submission if you can rise above your own deficiencies, insecurities, and resentments to give your readers the benefit that my bevy of blog readers receive with every article that I enter on this one of many platforms and venues.    

 

With considerable lack of regard---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph. D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative