Rolland’s Purpose
Rolland’s Purpose
Rolland’s purpose is two-fold: To beat the drums for American democracy and to help school boards REGAIN, ATTAIN, and MAINTAIN their maximum effectiveness. Let him explain.
More than ten years ago, Rolland B retired from his CPA practice specialized in financial and compliance audits of California school districts and other local educational agencies.
Rolland should have just sailed into the sunset, but … in retirement, he felt compelled to do one more mission – a cause with a slight hint of nobility of purpose.
After much time for introspection, during the pandemic, Rolland discovered his late-in-life calling: To beat the drums for American democracy – through his long-deferred books, his blog posts, and his public speaking. Rolland believes this is his destiny. In his heart of heart – Shakespeare’s Hamlet does not say “in my heart of hearts,” but “in my heart of heart” – Rolland believes that beating the drums for American democracy is the gift he was born to give.
And so it is that in spite of serious health issues, in the twilight of his life – after toiling for three decades in the vineyards of public K-12 education – Rolland has been writing furiously a few books on the twin topics of public K-12 education and American democracy. As an immigrant from the Far East, Rolland is forever grateful to America for the freedoms and the many blessings of democracy; and he considers his forthcoming books as his modest offerings on the altar of American democracy.
Through his books and blog posts, Rolland seeks to raise questions to stimulate conversations about America’s public K-12 education system and the role it plays in sustaining the longest experiment in democracy the world has ever known.
Rolland B believes that American democracy is at the precipice and that K-12 education has a crucial role to play in rescuing democracy from the abyss