The Travesty That Is the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education
District #5
Member Nelson Inz
>>>>> The Specter
of the Political Hack as School Board Member
Nelson Inz
was elected to the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education in November
2014 and reelected without opposition in November 2018. Lack of opposition to call Inz on his
corrupt ineptitude demonstrates public disinterest in, and misunderstanding of,
the chronic deficiencies of preK-12 education.
Inz is a
former bartender turned teacher who has located professionally in several
different school systems during his five years on the MPS Board of
Education. After Rebecca Gagnon quickly
offended enough of her fellow offenders to turn the majority on the board
against her as chair, Inz began his stint as chair in January 2017.
By that
time, Inz had joined Kim Ellison and Rebecca Gagnon in recruiting Ira Jourdain
and Bob Walser to run against Tracine Asberry and Josh Reimnitz for the
District 6 and District 4 seats respectively.
Asberry was a particularly effective advocate for academic progress who
would closely question Research, Evaluation, Assessment, and Accountability
Chief Eric Moore when he would deliver the latest bad news on student academic
achievement; Reimnitz, a former Teach
for America participant, was also an independent voice. Jourdain and Walser were recruited to do the
bidding of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT). Gagnon specifically endorsed Jourdain; Inz endorsed Walser.
Endorsement
of Walser, the silliest, most offensive school board member I have ever
witnessed on this or any other board, conveys much about Inz’s personal
judgment. He is a political hack who
harbors the same ambitions as do Ellison and Gagnon, neither of whom has been
able to realize goals for exalted political futures. Inz describes his endorsement of Walser over
Reimnitz as the action of a “team player.”
There were many of those in the regimes of Hitler and Stalin; they abide in the administration of Donald
Trump today.
Before the
Public Comments phase of every meeting of the MPS Board of Education during his
stint as chair, Inz read the following protocol:
>>>>>
The MPS Board of Education
values public comment
and input at board meetings to
inform our decision
making and provide information
and insight into
what is happening throughout
the district.
If you did not sign-up ahead
of time, there are sign
up sheets on the table where
you entered, near the
meeting agendas. We will close
sign-ups 15 minutes
after public comment begins.
Each person wishing to
address the board will be
given 3 minutes and the
clerk will let you know when
your time has expired.
Individuals will be called up
in the order in which they
signed up to speak. Please
approach the podium, if
able, and state your name,
area of the city you live in,
and connection to Minneapolis
Public Schools.
To ensure we are modeling
constructive public
engagement for our students,
we ask that if you wish
to address the board, you
observe the following:
·
Address
your comments to the Board Chair
and
not to individual Board directors, staff,
or
the audience.
·
Refrain
from personal attacks, swearing,
abusive
or threatening language, or other
disruptive
behavior.
·
Respect
those around you and do not hold
up
signs that block the view of others—
please
do not bring signage to the podium.
·
Do
not discuss employee or employment
related
issues, as public comment is not the
appropriate
venue to raise such issues.
·
Refrain
from referring to a person by name
or
position.
·
Making
accusations and derogatory
statements
about employees is not
appropriate.
This is a time for the Board
to listen so we will not be
responding to comments or
questions posed. If you
have a question that requires
a response, please
submit it to the Board’s
Executive Assistant in the
back of the room. Thank you.
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This protocol
was appropriately read by the political hack that Inz is but was not of his
authorship. The protocol was written by
Ed Graff and Rebecca Gagnon (when the latter was briefly chair), because I was
regularly citing specific Davis Center (MPS central offices, 1250 West
Broadway) staff members who were not doing their jobs and also taking to task
particular board members. The protocol
is written as a shield from criticism of central office bureaucrats and MPS
Board of Education members
and makes
mockery of the opening claim to value public comment. Board members now know that I have so many
venues for issuing my views that the
Graff-Gagnon ploy was an exercise in futility;
but the protocol does have an inhibiting effect on some speakers.
The current
iteration of the MPS Board of Education is composed of politicos heavily
indebted to the MFT for electoral backing.
These
corrupt board members are cowards who hide behind metaphorical embankments that
they have devised to shield them from criticism.
That they
have opted for Nelson Inz as Hack in Chief is telling.
If Inz
should search within himself and find a soul, Nelson Inz should resign
immediately from the MPS Board of Education.
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