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| Jenkins v. Missouri |
absolute sincerity of purpose."
Vision, commitment to learning and service never ends. It is of the utmost essence as
we move from one location or station In life to another that we take the incense of clean
hands and an unbending devotion to what we know as the truth.
The truth about Jenkins v. Mo (Kansas City Missouri School District) has stenched our
hands and bent our devotion to the truth. See Money and School Performance.
Our vision and commitment to learning and service to our communities has been
assassinated by our own soft heartedness. We choose comfort rather than commitment.
We choose "Buy Out" (push out) rather than vision. We choose the convenience of
silence rather than the dangers of expressing moral and professional concerns about
the truth of Jenkins and KCMSD.
We have taken the cowards way out.
We came into the profession with courage. We must rekindle and transmit this courage
to the generations that follow us. Ask not do they deserve it but ask what did we
do to deserve the blood and sacrifice of our ancestors; our training, education
and protection?
We must protect non-tenured teachers who exhibit vision, commitment to learning and
service to our communities. Unfortunately, this type of professional courage is not
welcomed In the KCMSD or other districts with diverse populations.
The hiprocacy and sham of high expectations, upgraded curriculum, safe
schools, reduction of racial isolation, promoting the victim, putting the victims
into facilities they need for quality education, bottom up planning, parent and
community input, placing the victim In the position they would have occupied
absent illegal segregation, removing the vestiges of past discrimination, more
individual attention for each student, and more, must be washed from our
hands, minds and souls by exposing the truth.
Some of the effects of Jenkins have been the dismantling of schools In the
neighborhoods of the victims, construction of some schools with under
capacity for the neighborhood they serve (requiring busing from the
neighborhood), continued influx of suburban problem children, an increase of
children who cannot read, write, count or function at the level need to succeed
In grade appropriate classes, and core academic teachers continuing to
purchase teaching materials and supplies out of their own pocket In order to
teach their classes and driving great teachers from the profession.
Vision, commitment to learning and service never ends. It is of the utmost essence as
we move from one location or station In life to another that we take the incense of clean
hands and an unbending devotion to what we know as the truth.
The truth about Jenkins v. Mo (Kansas City Missouri School District) has stenched our
hands and bent our devotion to the truth. See Money and School Performance.
Our vision and commitment to learning and service to our communities has been
assassinated by our own soft heartedness. We choose comfort rather than commitment.
We choose "Buy Out" (push out) rather than vision. We choose the convenience of
silence rather than the dangers of expressing moral and professional concerns about
the truth of Jenkins and KCMSD.
We have taken the cowards way out.
We came into the profession with courage. We must rekindle and transmit this courage
to the generations that follow us. Ask not do they deserve it but ask what did we
do to deserve the blood and sacrifice of our ancestors; our training, education
and protection?
We must protect non-tenured teachers who exhibit vision, commitment to learning and
service to our communities. Unfortunately, this type of professional courage is not
welcomed In the KCMSD or other districts with diverse populations.
The hiprocacy and sham of high expectations, upgraded curriculum, safe
schools, reduction of racial isolation, promoting the victim, putting the victims
into facilities they need for quality education, bottom up planning, parent and
community input, placing the victim In the position they would have occupied
absent illegal segregation, removing the vestiges of past discrimination, more
individual attention for each student, and more, must be washed from our
hands, minds and souls by exposing the truth.
Some of the effects of Jenkins have been the dismantling of schools In the
neighborhoods of the victims, construction of some schools with under
capacity for the neighborhood they serve (requiring busing from the
neighborhood), continued influx of suburban problem children, an increase of
children who cannot read, write, count or function at the level need to succeed
In grade appropriate classes, and core academic teachers continuing to
purchase teaching materials and supplies out of their own pocket In order to
teach their classes and driving great teachers from the profession.