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 Five for Resignation >>>>>
Kim Caprini
The Case of
a Corrupt and ignorant Board Member in Deep Denial
Joining the contingent of most
objectionable members of the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Board of
Education--- thus far conveyed as Bob
Walser, Nelson Inz, Kim Ellison, and Jenny Arneson--- are Kim Caprini and KerryJo Felder.
Caprini ran against Felder for the District
2 (North Minneapolis) seat in 2016, losing narrowly; she then ran successfully for an At-Large
seat, with heavy Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) backing, in 2018.
Caprini grew up in North Minneapolis but
mostly attended non-MPS schools, graduating from high school at Benilde/St.
Margaret’s. She has taken scattered
post-secondary courses but does not hold a college degree; she has a background in culinary arts but now
works in social service. Caprini has two
daughters who have attended Henry High School.
Caprini has proven herself to be a corrupt
politico that most typically describes members on this iteration of the MPS Board of Education,
and she frequently betrays a woeful knowledge base, generally and particularly
pertaining to the history and philosophy of education. But her most frequent mode gives appearance
of a person in deep denial.
She has proclaimed that her daughters got a
“first-rate education” at Henry, by factual counterpoint demonstrating that she
has no understanding of the constituents of an excellent education.
At board meetings during November
2019-January 2020, a contingent of Hispanic parents have cited woeful
conditions at what they describe as “low-performing” schools attended by their
children, calling for “priority enrollment” that would give their children
better educations at “higher performing” schools. Public commentators have voiced other complaints,
such as the turmoil frequently witnessed at and outside Harrison school
attended by students with severe emotional disorders.
Board members by protocol do not respond in
the moment to Public Comments but have ample opportunity to do so in the course
of regular and Committee of the Whole meetings.
Caprini’s response is impulsively reactive: She reflexively defends schools where
wretched academic quality is most obvious, and she is in seemingly deep denial
over conditions at Harrison. Concerning
Harrison, Caprini correctly countered criticism with citations of good
programs, such as those pertaining to culinary arts and music; but Caprini never concerns herself with the
palpable and chronic turmoil at Harrison, and she has never addressed the
abundant deficiencies in curriculum and teacher quality that describe not only
“low-performing” schools but the classrooms of the Minneapolis Public Schools
as a whole.
At-Large member Kim Caprini is a political
hack and gravely ignorant as to the history and philosophy of preK-12
education.
Her most prevalent and manifest mode is
that of the MFT sycophant in deep denial.
She should be shown the Davis Center door,
following closely behind Bob Walser, Nelson Inz, Kim Ellison, and Jenny
Arneson.
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