Article #3 >>>>> >Journal of the K-12 Revolution: Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota< Volume X, Number Eleven, May 2024

Article #3

 

MPS Davis Center Staff  >>>>>

Moral Bulimia While on Ethical Vacation

 

Below I present poetic reflections #5 and #6. 

 

The fifth poetic reflection focuses on the bulimia of moral guilt borne by Davis Center staff who inhabit a bloated bureaucracy.

 

 

Poetic Reflection #5

 

The Moral Bulimia of Minneapolis Public Schools Davis

Center Staff Doing the Bidding of Lisa Sayles-Adams

 

Immorality

pervasive,

ethics

evasive;

responsibility

evaded,

lives

traded:

 

personal

gain

from 

children's

pain:

 

Everyone

kneeling, 

reeling, 

muttering,

sputtering,

caught in

evil 

endemic,

immorality

systemic,

bloated

with the guilt

of the morally

bulimic.

 

 

The sixth poetic reflection focuses on the inclination of Davis Center staff to put any moral sensibilities aside in doing the bidding of MPS Superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams.

 

Poetic Reflection #6

 

Ethical Vacation for Davis Center Staff Operating Under Putative MPS Superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams

 

Children's futures

neglected, 

familial pleas

rejected,

morality

invisible,

collusion

indivisible:

an abominable

sight,

Davis souls in 

flight,

fleeing

shame,

shunning

blame,

and yet

just know:

You have 

nowhere

to go,

with Omnipotence

discerning 

your selfish

motivation,

for morality 

languishing 

on ethical 

vacation.