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MPS Davis Center Staff  >>>>>

Mutual Resignation of the Wrong Kind as Children Cheated

Below I present poetic reflections #9 and #10. 

 

The ninth poetic reflection focuses on disingenuous references to “excellent teachers” and “caring staff” parroted by MPS Davis Center staff, despite low student academic proficiency rates.

 

 

Poetic Reflection #9

 

The "Listening Session" at Bethune:  Message Bleated, Children Cheated

 

At Bethune,

reading 

proficiency:

ten

percent;

yet the gilders

gild on,

they never

relent;

math and science

both stalled

disastrously

at five, 

yet the glossers

gloss on,

in full

shuck,

replete

jive:

"Excellent teachers, 

caring staff,"

the mantra

goes,

never mind 

those

chronic academic

woes;

'cause at our

"Listening Sessions"

an upbeat message

must always be

bleated,

never mind all

those graduates 

we've ceaselessly

cheated.

 

 

The tenth poetic reflection focuses on two possible responses for Davis Center Staff serving under sub-mediocre MPS Superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams:  “mutual resignation,” as in resigning themselves to being toadies for Sayle-Adams, versus “mutual resignation,” as in resigning in mass as appropriate response to Sayles-Adams’s incompetence.

 

Poetic Reflection #10

 

Davis Center Staff Under Lisa Sayles Adams:  Defining Mutual Resignation

 

Mutual

resignation,

or 

mutual 

resignation?

Perdition

or

contrition?

Depends 

on the

definition:

 

question,

in the 

Grand Scheme:

Evil Dream

or

Life Supreme?

Do I sustain

the fatal 

status quo,

deepen 

the plunge

of the knife,

or forge a

path to a

New,

Moral,

Ethical,

Soul-Nourishing

Life?