The
Compatibility of Citizen Organizations Focused on the Exigencies of the Trump
Tribulation and My Long-Term Answer in the Overhaul of K-12 Education
I
continue to give a great amount of thought to the matters of recent discussion
focused on the worthiness of the pursuit of Perfection; and the elation that comes from participatory
citizenship.
For me, these two foci of thought and action are closely related, and indeed every moment of my life holds before me that vision of Perfection as I determine how best to apply my considerable energies for most effective action in the moment or over the long term.
The matter of effective participatory citizenship is constantly humming in my brain each day, with much attention given to pertinent journalistic articles, discussions and coverage on NPR/MPR, and situations unfolding before me on my daily trek.
I am heartened that so many others are moved to action in countering the expected policies of the second Trump presidency.
I have long had very great respect for the ground-level work of the organization Indivisible, and I observe that venerable organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, Sierra Club, and Planned Parenthood are primed for action to meet the exigencies of this moment. Although abortion is a conflicted issue for me, I am glad that organizations such as EMILYs List, National Women’s Law Center, and Reproductive Freedom for All are around to press the case for individual decisions made in response to problematic pregnancies. I am equally heartened that more foresightful use of contraceptives and vasectomies reportedly is on the rise: Abortion as delayed birth control is unsavory.
Newer organizations working for ground-level change and counter-action to the Trump Tribulation have also caught my attention: EarthJustice (climate change, environmental concerns); and three organizations---- Center for Common Ground, Communities United, and the Green Grassroots Emergency Election Coalition that came together to produce two documents: The People’s Guide to Grassroots Organizing 2024 and Saving American Democracy, 2024.
All of
this heartens me in knowing that so many organizations are primed to meet the
most proximate issues of the current challenge as I mainly focus on the
long-term answer to the dilemma of low information base citizenry: the overhaul of K-12 education.
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In that regard, I feel so very blessed to be able to work with my bevy of students each day, with their astounding variety of needs, from those who are cognitively challenged in some way, to those who have been extremely abused academically over multiple years, to those who have now settled academically under my guidance and are primed for advanced college preparatory endeavors.
Blessed am I also to have my blog; my academic journal, Journal of the K-12 Revolution: Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota; my book, Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools: Current Condition, Future Prospect (now advancing in production of the second edition in anticipation of formal publication); and my advocacy in Public Comments and prominent presence at various meetings of the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Board of Education.
I am now directing much attention to MPS Superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams’s dissertation, a gossamer work of just over a hundred pages that somehow gained acceptance as a doctoral thesis, and then again no great surprise and even standard fare in the murky world of education professors and the education doctorate (Ed. D.).
I have downloaded and perused Sayles-Adams’s dissertation, expect to be able to read this flimsy document in approximately an hour, and will be giving a critical review of this insubstantial and yet salient example of what passes as doctoral work in the universe inhabited by education professors and their unfortunate acolytes.
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