Sep 21, 2021

Article #3 >>>>> Revelatory Exchanges with the Inept Reporters of the >Star Tribune<, Early September 2021

 

Article #3

                  

Exchanges of Mid-September 2021 with Star Tribune Reporters and Columnists

 

September 10, 2022

 

Mara--

 

Over time, the entrenched threat is the system that produces the societal ignorance that sustains Covid-19 and the cyclical poverty that sends so many babies to early deaths---

 

With best regards---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

 

 

September 10, 2021

 

Libor---

 

Only overhaul of K-12 education will end the cyclical poverty and the conditions that result in the death of these babies---

 

Bobby Joe is a friend but I have called him out many times for his membership in the DFL/MFT/Education Minnesota cohort that resists the needed changes---

 

and not a single reporter or columnist at the >Star Tribune< cares---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Avenue North

Minneapolis  MN  55057

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

 

 

 

September 10, 2021 

 

Mara & Anthony---

 

The real story is that Operations (including Transportation) are relative strengths of MPS snd SPPS, so that the abiding evanescent struggles represent lamentable fuss to transport students to such academically insubstantial classrooms where in fact few "high quality people" preside.

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

 


From: Gary Davison <garymarvindavison@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2021 10:22 AM
To: Walsh, Paul <
Paul.Walsh@startribune.com>; Lonetree, Anthony <Anthony.Lonetree@startribune.com>; Klecker, Mara <Mara.Klecker@startribune.com>; Myron.Medcalf <myron.medcalf@startribune.com>; Jackson, Zoe <Zoe.Jackson@startribune.com>; Ross, Jenna <Jenna.Ross@startribune.com>; Berg, Jenny <Jenny.Berg@startribune.com>; Schafer, Lee <Lee.Schafer@startribune.com>; Humphrey, Katie <Katie.Humphrey@startribune.com>; Golden, Erin <Erin.Golden@startribune.com>
Subject: Congratulations on your important story on the Koch & Sons ruling---

 

 

September 11, 2021

 

Paul---

 

Your story on Judge Bowbeer's ruling in the Koch & Sons case is reportorial journalism at its best---  and deserved more prominent placement---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Avenue North

Minneapolis  MN  55411

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

 

Thanks Gary. You made my day. 

 

 

 

September 11, 2021

 

 

Paul---

 

On 9-11 we should remember the 4,600 lynchings in United States history between 1877 and 1965---  and the contemporary metaphorical lynchings perpetrated by the Minneapolis Public Schools that >Star Tribune< K-12 beat reporters dimly understand and in any case lack the courage to convey---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Avenue North

Minneapolis  MN  55411

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

 

September 12, 2021

 

Andy and Jeff---

 

Your article merely describes symptoms aggravated by the dislocations of Covid and the furor around the murder of George Floyd.

 

Cyclical poverty is the context for violent expression of pent-up frustrations;  cyclical poverty will only end upon the overhaul of K-12 education and the propulsion of young people into the world prepared to live this one earthly sojourn as culturally enriched, civically engaged, professionally satisfied citizens---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary 

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Avenue North

Minneapolis  MN  55057

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

 

 

September 12, 2021

 

Briana---

 

As we hope that the Peter Principle is not at work, note that Robert Doty left a tangled mess behind smoke-and-mirrors budgeting, so that the superlative Ibrahima Diop had to work long hours to achieve a structurally balanced budget with ascending amounts in the reserve fund at the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

With best wishes---

Gary

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

September 12, 2021

 

Myron---

 

I have worked 50 years with children and families living at the urban core.

 

Call for an appointment and prepare to check your ego at the door if you want to grasp the key vexations and comprehend the parties foundationally responsible for cyclical poverty---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com 

 

September 12, 2021

 

Lee---

 

Your article, as is your wont, remains a safe distraction from the key vexations of K-12 education.

 

Although she became a sellout apologist for the teachers sent forth from wretched teacher training

programs modeled on the intellectually corrupt program at Teacher's College/Columbia University, Diane Ravitch provides laudably cautionary information pertinent to private enterprise involvement in K-12 education in her book, >Reign of Error<.

 

But then neither you nor anyone at the >Star Tribune< cares---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

 

 

 

September 14, 2021

                    

Erin---

 

With the Minneapolis Public Schools as salient example, the Department of Teaching and Learning is a vast wasteland costing $3,000,000.  Two other departments, Office of Black Student Achievement and Department of Indian Education, do not serve their intended functions while costing at least $1,000,000 in aggregate.  Four academically insubstantial associate superintendents receive salaries totaling $600,000.  

 

The Department of Indian Education is legislatively mandated but could be slimmed and redesigned for academic credibility;  the other entities and positions should be eliminated, freeing funds for professionalized bus drivers and staff comfortable on the streets and in the homes of students from families struggling with finances and functionality.

 

But neither you nor anyone at the >Star Tribune< cares:  A job is just a job, a paycheck is just a paycheck, and whatever gets editorial approval suffices as the system continued to sends the precious young to early deaths on mean streets or to lives of psychic or physical incarceration---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Avenue North

Minneapolis  MN  55411

http:// www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

 

September 17, 2021

 

Libor---  

 

KIPP has struggled to retain teachers (mostly mediocre) and fulfill the vision of national founders.  Along with Harvest Prep and Ascension, KIPP is overrated as a Minneapolis Public Schools alternative.

 

These schools sustain the cyclical poverty that will unconscionably keep you and Alex in stories of lives ended prematurely until curriculum, teacher quality, and outreach to families struggling with dilemmas of finances and functionality overhauls the abiding wretched systems.

 

But not a single reporter or columnist at the >Star Tribune< cares.

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

 

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 6:26 PM Gary Davison <garymarvindavison@gmail.com> wrote:

September 16, 2021

 

Jenny---

 

These farcically dubbed RCEs, staffed by fewer than 10 academic lightweights at each of six locations, including Sartell, tragi-comically are supposed to assist all of the failing schools of Minnesota---

 

the much more important story---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 


On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 6:22 PM Gary Davison <garymarvindavison@gmail.com> wrote:

September 15, 2021

 

Ryan & Alex---

 

Ed Graff is an academic lightweight with neither a bachelor's nor a master's degree in an academic subject (this is true, too, for Joe Gothard).  The MPS Comprehensive Design is academically vacuous.

 

After the understandable concern over the Covid crisis caused by the stupid citizenry produced by the public schools, the abysmal quality of education at MPS will sustain poverty at the urban core and keep Alex and Libor in story material for all moons as far as prophetic eyes can see.

 

And not a single reporter or columnist at the >Star Tribune< cares---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Avenue North

Minneapolis  MN  55057

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 10:36 AM Gary Davison <garymarvindavison@gmail.com> wrote:

September 15, 2021

 

Ryan & Alex---

 

Ed Graff is an academic lightweight with neither a bachelor's nor a master's degree in an academic subject (this is true, too, for Joe Gothard).  The MPS Comprehensive Design is academically vacuous.

 

After the understandable concern over the Covid crisis caused by the stupid citizenry produced by the public schools, the abysmal quality of education at MPS will sustain poverty at the urban core and keep Alex and Libor in story material for all moons as far as prophetic eyes can see.

 

And not a single reporter or columnist at the >Star Tribune< cares---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Avenue North

Minneapolis  MN  55057

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

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