Oct 21, 2019

Phenomenon of MPS Academic Decision-Maker Incompetence Parallels the Southern Police State and the Historical Abuse of Women

From the early-mid 17th century, the southern realms of what became the United States constituted a police state for African Americans.  The police state prevailed under changing jurisdictional authority, through stages of colonial control, the government-plantation complex maintaining slavery through 1865, and the Jim Crow system prevailing through 1965.

 

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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