Smaller classes in St. Paul schools mean less room for diversity

MPLS Star & SIckle ^ | 4-24-14 | ANTHONY LONETREE

[TurboZamboni]

The St. Paul teachers’ contract may have an unwanted side effect: Limiting school spots for the city’s integration effort. The class-size lim­its her­ald­ed as a key fac­et of the new St. Paul public schools teachers contract are com­pli­cat­ing ef­forts to boost en­roll­ment and blunt­ing an in­itia­tive de­signed to in­te­grate some of the district’s most popu­lar schools. That initiative, Re­flect­ing St. Paul, was launched this school year and seeks to open seats in 11 schools to stu­dents from neighborhoods with low­er in­comes, high­er per­cent­ages of non-Eng­lish-speak­ing families and low­er test scores. Under the program, the stu­dents, many from mi­nor­i­ty groups, are en­ti­tled to one-fifth of the avail­able seats in each school. A­vail­a­bil­i­ty hing­es on how many seats remain open af­ter first be­ing al­lo­cat­ed to chil­dren liv­ing within each of the re­spec­tive school com­mu­ni­ties. With the new class-size lim­its, however, the schools had fewer seats to be­gin with in plan­ning for the 2014-15 school year. For Re­flect­ing St. Paul, in particular, the school-choice lottery results, as of last week, reveal a 41 percent de­cline in stu­dent place­ment at the 11 schools — from 378 stu­dents in April 2013 to 222 stu­dents this year.

[TurboZamboni]

now they'll need a new reason to jack up property taxes again.

[Tennessee Nana]

Oh noez !!!

[minnesota_bound]

That is MPLS RED Star & Sickle

I grew up in Minneapolis area. Same people in power or their kids when I was there in the 1980’s.

[PapaNew]

You know what? “Diversity” is nobody’s freaking business.

[TurboZamboni]

The unions used to say they needed more money for ‘smaller class sizes’.

Now they’ll need more money for ‘more diversity’. (IE: forced busing)

[Chode]

yup, let the busing commence...

[Will88]

OH, come on St. Paul liberals. You can do better than this timid effort at "Reflecting St. Paul". After all, diversity is our strength and should come first.

So, implement widescale bussing. Bus kids of every color in every direction until every single school looks like St. Paul

Diversity comes first, at least that's what the leftist whacko hyporcrites tell everyone else.

[dsrtsage]

Because nothing teaches a kid to read and do math more efficiently than having a black kid on your right, a vietnamese kid on your left, a pacific islander in front of you, and an american indian behind you. This is tongue and cheek of course, since diversity to the left means only black and sometimes mexican.

[Don Corleone]

Hint: Class sizes of (1) will guarantee no diversity. Also (0) does the same. Other than that, not so much.

[ilovesarah2012]

What is the end-goal for integration? Who do they think it benefits and why?

[EEGator]

Diversity:

[RetiredTexasVet]

Yes, but when the school scores plummet, the teachers union and administration will blame it on “diversity”. We cooda done gooder but all the trashers, haters and wreckers did us in.

[driftless2]

What can be going through the mind of a person who sincerely believes that a student cannot learn unless he or she is surrounded by students of different ethnicities? Liberalism is a mental disease.