Holding Babies: Talented Leadership please Stand Up!
In 2023, you’re either on board or off track. (Note: This is a snippet from chapter one of The Justification of Splitting Minneapolis and St. Paul Public Schools Districts in Half - By Don Allen (2023). 1. All the bad stuff about education is perpetual; it had NOTHING to do with the death of George Floyd or the COVID-19 pandemic. 2. Parents realized in real-time during distance learning that if an educational construct (5-12 Twin Cities Public Schools) could not maintain a policy to save the children during this time of reactionary buffoonery, where is learning really happening? During the pandemic (2020-21), many of my students in secondary had their babies in my (our) classrooms. In the photo below, the child is six months old; the father is in grade 10, and the mother is in grade 9. Let me make it clear: adults failed these children, and it’s not the fault of the young parents when the local education system continues to fail them. The parents, forced to live as adults (yes, a