http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/4349498.html
When you were hired two years ago, we were very eager for some new
leadership to assist us with the persistent problems that face us in
educating our children. We overlooked the shortcomings of your previous
employment in hope that the promises that you and your supporters were
making about your abilities would actually bear out and help us make
some headway. We knew then that forces in state and out were actively
working to bring about our demise. We were all too aware, also, of the
ravages of poverty wrecking the chances of many of our children to
achieve to their abilities, and that the challenges of overcoming a new
language and culture presented obstacles too daunting for many of those
seemingly fearless newcomers who dared to enter our society. We also
knew that maintaining a strong support base for our very excellent
teaching staff would be a tough row to hoe in the face of increasing
health care costs along with the assaults by those who would pay them
less and have them relegated to the ranks of interchangeable cogs in a
machine. We who live and are raising families in this town knew, too,
just how diverse the neighborhoods continue to be and how difficult it
is to reach consensus on issues that reshape where and how we live. It
is not work for the easily discouraged.
Mr. Jennings, whether you were aware of it or not, the debate about
how to educate our children was already taking place before you rode
into town from the burbs, and it will continue; the job of educating
our children will not stop when you cease to collect a check from our
meager payroll account. We understand that it must seem frustrating to
you to have been unable to have been effective in the position that we
gave you. And we understand that without any prior experience in
managing an organization like the MPS, and without any training or
education in the field, it might appear to you as if the system is,
indeed, broken. But before we declare the system broken for good, let's
let someone with some training and a track record of success have
another crack at it. Your proclamation that the system is broken might,
in fact, be premature. Have your new prospective employers call for a
reference, anytime.
Dan McGuire
Ericsson
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