Analysis of the
Members of Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education as to
Specific Nature of Culpability >>>>> Six Who Should Resign Immediately and Three
Who Give Faint Hope
Six
Members of the MPS Board of Education Who Should Resign Immediately: Jenny Arneson, KerryJo Felder, Kim Ellison, Kim Caprini,
Nelson Inz, and Bob Walser
Case
Number Six for Resignation >>>>>
KerryJo Felder
Fraudulent
Claimant to North Minneapolis Leadership
Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Board of
Education member KerryJo Felder represents District #2, encompassing North
Minneapolis. She was endorsed by the
Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) for her winning candidacy in November
2016. She also has firm ties to the
Democrat-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party that looms behind the MFT front powerfully to
influence the outcomes of school board elections.
Thus, Felder is a political hack doing the
bidding fo the MFT/DFL cohort, as is the case for all nine members on this
unfortunate current assemblage of the MPS Board of Education.
Felder has children in Northside schools
and was active at MPS sites and at board meetings many years before she ran for
a seat. She had an unsettled childhood
and adolescence, mostly growing up in South Minneapolis. Her personal accounts allude incoherently to
an academician father who held a doctorate---
and to a life of poverty as a youth.
Also in her shadowy background is a young adulthood spent for many
desultory years in a lifestyle lacking firm vocational articulation in
California.
Those South Minneapolis and California
sojourns do not denote a firmly rooted Northsider.
Felder has little connection to the North
Minneapolis of the Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House, W. Gertrude Brown, Harry Davis, Bertha Smith,
Marion McElroy, Larry Brown, the Edmund Cohen Community Center, old Sixth
Avenue, North High School in its academic heyday of Jewish and African American
composition and friendship, or even to the more recent influence of the Way and
Opportunities Unlimited (where Syl Davis, Gwen Davis, and Spike Moss held sway)
and the City, Inc., as a successor to
the Way.
And yet Felder projects an image of herself
as a Northsider out to claim resources for MPS schools that have been
previously denied investment for buildings, athletic fields, and academic
programs by comparison to sites and programs in other areas of the city.
But Felder is a fraud, as a claimant to
firm Northsider status, and as an advocate for the schools of North
Minneapolis.
She is a corrupt politico with very little
knowledge of the history and philosophy of education.
Felder is a particularly objectionable
member of the MPS Board of Education for pretending that she is an advocate for
academic quality in what she abidingly refers to as “my schools” for “my
Northsiders.”
When confronted with student reading,
mathematics, and science proficiency rates at North High School that are less
than seven percent (7%) and ACT scores averaging 15.7, Felder has no
comment. When she is told that there are
classes at North that are so out of order that teachers have quit teaching, she
utters not a word. When Felder is told
that an English teacher pretending to teach The
Autobiography of Malcom X has absolutely no knowledge of that towering
personage, she sits silently and never thenceforth addresses the problem. When told by Hispanic parents that the
pre-K-5 and preK-8 schools of North Minneapolis are failing, she gives
appearance of the denial that is her wont.
KerryJo Felder is a fraud as pretender to
firm Northsider status.
She is a corrupt political hack typical for
a group that to a member is beholden to the MFT/DFL cohort.
Felder has no grasp of the history or
philosophy of pre-K-12 public education.
And she is in immoral, neglectful denial of
the rampant deficiencies of curriculum and teacher quality in the Minneapolis
Public Schools.
Felder projects the image of a fighter.
She should fight her way among Bob Walser,
Nelson Inz, Kim Caprini, Kim Ellison, and Jenny Arneson off the MPS Board of
Education and out the door of the Davis Center.
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