Jul 28, 2021

>Star Tribune< Staff Writer Anthony Lonetree’s Expletive-Punctuated Reply to My Incisive Email of 24 July 2021

Received from Star Tribune Staff Writer Anthony Lonetree, 24 July, 2021

Don't give me your bull[expeletive].  I held back the first time. I seriously don't need to hear from you.

Tony

Anthony Lonetree

Staff Writer

612-673-4109 (office)

612-875-0041 (cell)

 

My Reply

 

July 24, 2021

Anthony-- 

Open letters to you are now a regular feature on my blog, from which you have much to learn---  The nature of your reply speaks volumes as to your character and intellect---

With 50 years of experience teaching our precious young at the urban core---


Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

(Cell) 507-301-9902

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Education Initiative

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

The Email from Me That Engendered Anthony’s Reply

 

July 24, 2021 

Anthony---

You article, “2 St. Paul School Board Candidates Come Up Short of DFL Endorsement,” in yesterday’s 23 July 2021 edition of the Star Tribune is another serviceable mediocrity, informational but requiring no courageto write.


With regard to school boards, remember that occupants are overwhelmingly agents of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party/Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) cohort that will always oppose the necessary overhaul todesign and implement knowledge-intensive curriculum and elevate teacher quality.  Even rare independent candidates fail to comprehend the needed changes.

 

And that is what an effective member of any school board should do:  advocate for the the needed overhaul in curriculum and teacher quality, upon an understanding that in doing so they will have to oust many central officer administrators.  This means ousting current central office leadership consisting of the superintendent and all academic program decision-makers.

Such assertive action will require an understanding of the needed changes, the depth of incompetence of central administrators, the intellectual insubstantiality of all academic decision-makers, the courage to serve as agents of change, and the political independence of the MFT to challenge the inept education establishment.

Understand, then, that the DFL nominating process, which those of us on the left will have to tolerate for positions such as mayor and legislators, is corrupt with regard to public education issues:  Members of the DFL are controlled by Education Minnesota and local union affiliates.  Teacher unions will always oppose the installation of knowledge-intensive curriculum that teachers at the median do not have the academic training to impart, and they will oppose the needed teacher training to prepare teachers able to deliver substantive knowledge and skill sets.

In this situation, the DFL-endorsed candidacies of Halla Henderson, Uriah Ward, and Clayton Howatt should be viewed with suspicion;  and those of Jim Vue and James Farnsworth considered more favorably, since if they are elected they will not bear the moral weight of DFL/St. Paul Federation of Teacher sycophancy.

You should at the very least be aware of the subtext of your articles for anone who comprehends the most vexatious issues of public education.

And some day you should gather the courage to shed your cover as a journalistic mediocrity and challenge the curriculum, teacher quality, and institutional corruption that shortchanges our precious young people in the public schools every day they go forth to another day of academic abuse to which they are subjected by administrators and teachers.

With the comprehension that comes with 50 years of teaching students at the urban core---

Gary

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

(Cell) 507-301-9902

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

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