Article #5 in a Series >>>>> However Bad You May Think Things Are at the Minneapolis Public Schools, They Are Much Worse--- And Thus I Am in the Process of Taking the Offending Systems and Staff Apart Piece by Piece

We Must Be Clear in Calling Out Those Responsible for the Abysmal Education at the Minneapolis Public Schools as We Examine

 

the Corrupt Context in Which Superintendent Ed Graff;  Interim Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Senior Academic Officer Aimee Fearing;  Associate Superintendents Shawn Harris-Berry, LaShawn Ray, Ron Wagner, and Brian Zambreno;  the 22 Staff Members of the Department of Teaching and Learning;  Michael Walker and the Office of Black Student Achievement, and Jennifer Simon and the Department of Indian Education;  Academically Abuse MPS Students

 

As readers scroll on down to the previous articles in this series, you should be clear as to the culprits in sustaining the lamentable state of public education at the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS).

 

As a leftist revolutionary, I have almost as much disregard for hypocritical hippy-dippy liberals as I do intellectually bankrupt conservatives and reactionaries.  Rather than focusing on ripping down statues, trashing community businesses, and cowardly casting aspersions at those who lived two centuries ago, those thimbleful who are sincerely interested in the overhaul of K-12 education would do well to face off with this motley crew:

  

In the MPS central offices at the Davis Center (1250 West Broadway), the culprits are

 

Superintendent Ed Graff

Interim Senior Academic Officer Aimee Fearing

Associate Superintendent Shawn Harris-Berry

Associate Superintendent LaShawn Ray

Associate Superintendent Ron Wagner

Associate Superintendent Brian Zambreno

The 22 staff members of the Department of Teaching and Learning

Office of Black Male Student Director Michael Walker and his staff members

Department of Indian Education Director Jennifer Simon and her staff members

 

On the MPS Board of Education, in order of offensiveness there are

 

District 4 Member Bob Walser

District 5 Member Nelson Inz

District 2 Member KerryJo Felder

At-Large Member Kim Ellison

District 1 Member Jenny Arneson

At-Large Member Kim Caprini

District 4 Member Ira Jourdain

District 3 Member Siad Ali

At-Large Member Josh Pauly

 

At the Minnesota Department of Education there have been and are those responsible for such corrupt pretensions as the North Star Accountability System and World’s Best Workforce, including

 

Former Commissioner Brenda Cassellius

Current Commissioner Mary Cathryn Richter

All MDE staff members who have colluded with these intellectually corrupt officials, including prominently Michael Dietrich

 

Decision makers and implementers dwell at institutions such as the University of Minnesota (UM), Hamline, Augsburg, St. Thomas, and UM Mankato, including

 

University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel

The presidents and administrative decision-makers the other given institutions

Staff Members and Education professors in the UM College of Education and Human Development (CEHD)

                                                                                                               

Key Members of the Private and Public Sectors in Minneapolis, including

 

Sandy Vargas, erstwhile head of the Minneapolis Foundation, she who was going to RESET education 

 

R. T. Rybak, who was going to atone for 12 years of neglect of public education as mayor by leading Generation Next toward solutions for the public education quandary but departed for a better paying job at the Minneapolis Foundation. 

 

Former members of the MPS Board of Education, who showed great promise in driving to the core of the vexations at the Minneapolis Public Schools---  but are now nowhere to be seen

 

Carla Bates

Josh Reimnitz

Tracine Asberry             

 

Former members of the MPS Board of Education who issues bombastic proclamations but has no program and no sustained commitment in any position he assumes:

 

Don Samuels

 

Members of the public and press who neglect the responsibilities of citizenship or give evidence of intellectual and moral corruption, including

 

Star Tribune Editorial Board Scott Gillespie

Star Tribune Commentary Pages Editor Doug Tice

Star Tribune Editorial Board Member David Banks

Gadflies of the General Public

that got all worked up about the Comprehensive District Design (CDD) but have now disappeared into the woodwork

 

Be clear.

 

Do your homework.

 

Stop with the bromides and mass ignorance.

 

Identify the true culprits and root them out.

Commit to genuine change or find your own place in the woodwork.