Hey, Doug Mann. You're right. The SW Journal DOES do a nice job with candidate profiles. I'm quite sure we'll never see anything even close to this for schoolboard candidates in the Strib or even any of the free tabloids. I now have a better read of what's on your mind. I am more and more enamored of your concept of uniformly distributing ability and experience in the teaching ranks in our school district.
But I think there's more that is needed. Anyone who hasn't worked in a given place really doesn't know half of what goes on. I apply that consistently across the board to public and private organizations. Just what we've learned about people keeping mum at Enron and Andersen illustrates the point. If you could find a handful of dissident public school teachers, you might start getting a real handle on why failures occur. I won't say my present place of employment, but I could describe lots of things that are wrong there. It is private, but I had a past public-sector job in the Minneapolis government, in the ITS department, and I could read chapter and verse of what was wrong there, too. I went home from work every day shaking my head. My mother was a past public school teacher is a couple of different school districts. And we learned a few things about those schools because she was very frustrated with the irrationality. Never stopped her from working hard, but it did make her sort of a victim. So, if you could find a really talented and motivated school teacher, you might start finding out why failures occur. And why the people like her or him find it so hard to fix it. Jim Mork Cooper Neighborhood Minneapolis __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@;mnforum.org Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
