For a much longer period of time,
patriarchal systems throughout the world kept women in subjugation. In the United States, women gained suffrage
in 1920 but awaited legislation of the late 1960s to forge a way to equity, and
only now give evidence of seizing the opportunities along less obstructed
paths. Subjugation of women too often included
sexual abuse that lamentably included the acquiescence of women themselves until
a few spoke and quite a few others whispered or proclaimed, “Me too.”
Injustice quite often occurs in the open,
under a glaring metaphorical sun that begs, “Speak the Truth,” until someone
does, someone such as Ida B. Wells-Barnett, A. Philip Randolph, or Gloria Steinhem. Then once the Truth is proclaimed, those crouching
in the shadows emerge to verify the assertions of those speaking Truth to authority. Then often those perpetrators, who had
survived on the basis of unspoken Truth, tumble as their protective edifices
crumble and a new order appears on the landscape, sometimes sooner, at others
later but, whatever the time frame, ineluctably.
And so it will be with those who for
decades have made such incompetent decisions regarding academics, the core
function of the locally centralized school district. At the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS),
matters other than academics have been much better attended. There was a financial mess until brilliant Chief
Financial Officer Ibrahima Diop cleaned it up, but he and his extraordinarily
talented staff have done so. Technology
was not well-used before immensely skilled Fadi Fadhil took the Chief
Information Officer post, but his Source and
Pulse initiatives are superior in
potential if only academic decision-makers and teachers have the wit to realize
that the promise of technology is not realized by merely parking a youth in
front of a computer.
The Truth in the shabby case of the
Minneapolis Public Schools that has not been told is the stark incompetence of academic
decision-makers, namely
Superintendent Ed Graff;
Deputy Chief of Academics Cecilia Saddler (who
recently made her way out the Davis Center [MPS central office] door);
Associate Superintendents Carla
Steinbach-Huther (also as of recent happenstance not at her long-ineffective post),
Ron Wagner, and Brian Zambreno (a contingent unfortunately now including Shawn
Harris-Berry and LaShawn Ray);
Office of Black Male Achievement Director
Michael Walker;
and the heads of the Departments of Indian
Education and Teaching and Learning, as of this academic year 2019-2020 now respectively
occupied by
Jennifer Rose Simon
and
Aimee Fearing.
For years those at MPS posts pertinent to
finance, technology, and operations must have wondered why they were so good at
what they do but nothing ever seemed to change or improve involving or
emanating from the academic division. And
the answer that long awaited revelation has been clear to anyone knowing the
system that produces such incompetence but demurred in uttering the words.
Thus, now know that in my none-demurring
formulation the words are as follows >>>>>
Academic decision-makers, Minneapolis
Federation of Teacher (MFT) staff, and rank and file teachers are trained by
those lamentable campus presences known as education professors; thus, given the ideological corruption and intellectual
vacuity of those figures, incompetence among the core functionaries in an
organization that should thrive on academics is predictable.
And now that failure shall be known.
The reality of injustice perpetrated by
academic decision-makers at the Minneapolis Public Schools is just as stark as
the southern police state and the patriarchal system.
As did those situated on the historical
parallel, academic MPS decision-makers will resist change---
but eventually they shall be swept away as systemic
detritus extirpated by the PreK-12 Revolution.
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