“How to dismantle a bad educational system” - It would take 2 years at maximum velocity if we started in 2023 in the Twin Cities

 By Don Allen, M.A. Ed./MAT

A classmate challenged me to write “How to dismantle a bad educational system.” It would take 2 years at maximum velocity if we started in 2023 in the Twin Cities.  

(Note: This is a snippet; the students, families, and stakeholders are not the challenge - but under the current weaponized, anti-educational construct in district administrations, scholars become relics used for price points and funding streams - education is a second-tier non-concern.)

Step 1. Send curious information into the public domain 

Step 2. Showmanship - break agitators and reliance; they’d ride with you anyway just to get a front seat on the s-storm you will strategically produce to start the mechanical processes of change (it’s simple cause and effect.) 

a. disrupt the ideas of superiority;

b. let targeted subjects (systems) ‘dangle,’ eventually, parts of the system need to be thrown under the bus. 

Step 3. Speak freely 

Step 4. Use the data - it’s not personal;

Step 5. Answer all the ‘how’ questions; 

Step 6. Engage like minds - people that want more out of the system (all);

Step 7. Support a new school board candidate, flip the board; give the current superintendent a mission (like eliminating 'gaps' in 3 high schools in under 2 -years.) 

Step 8. Play politics well, keep unions close but with minimal information;

Step 9. See systems, listen to people, and continue to discern. 

Step 10. Watch your 12 & 6, 9 & 3. Your kin folk (rogue dominant culture work groups) ain’t your friend, don’t cut employment ties, they will resign.

There's a lot more, this is only a teaser.