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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