And they are all politically correct.
Well, they do have gender neutral bathrooms and the Prom Queen is a boy, so I guess it’s all good.
Maybe the muslim students are bringing them down.
Liberals. Next question.
Liberals and Muslims.
Sooner or later this will have to be dealt with.
Liberals on facebook were contrasting Minnesota with Wisconsin to “prove” that liberalism works better than Walker’s conservatism. Now I know why they have been silent about it recently.
Diversity is the killer. The Third World influx is truly “Transforming America.”
They are too busy studying with their Islamic studies, their sex ex for pre-schooler and their course work on “White Privilege” to study dumb old things like reading or writing or arithmetic
Obama, Somalia and political correctness.....
Don’t tell me all those refugees are having an impact!!!
What happened? It was hijacked by Godless liberals and communists.
I went to school in MN from 9th to 12th grade,1967-1971. They graded everything on a curve. The top score on a test was the automatic A even if that top score was a 70 or less. Plus, they had D’s. On most tests you could still pass by getting only 40 percent of the answers right.
This came as quite a shock after attending TX schools where there was no social promotion, and any score below 70 was an F.
Plus, MN schools had almost no discipline. Students could dress any way they wanted, and routinely talked back to teachers with little of no consequences. Unlike TX schools that had strict dress-codes, and you had better say “yes, sir,” “no, sir,” “yes ma’am and no ma’am” or you would be visiting the principals office, and any disruption could earn you some pretty harsh swats with the Board of Education.
The myth of the great MN school system is just that, a myth.
Somali influx?
I left the Bloomington, Minnesota education system after the 9th grade (in 1976). Went to a private school.
A couple of times, during my school’s breaks, I went with friends to sit in classes in one of the Bloomington high schools. I saw:
- students taking the grade book off the teacher’s desk and changing their grades
- teachers showing a 10 minute film and leaving the room. The students rewound the film several times so that the film took the entire hour to view.
- students openly mocking teachers during class
However, there was actual teaching going on in AP classes.
This was a 95% white school. Weak teachers and unruly students. You could shove all the money in the world into that system and it wouldn’t make anything better.
Schools have long claimed that if we give them the kids and enough money, they can fix any problems and ensure a well educated child. Well, they will never be more important than parents. And while the drastically different demographics in Minnesota play a huge role, the changing family structure does as well.
Last year was my husband’s twenty fourth year teaching in middle school. In that well to do district, less than a third of the students came from intact two parent families. In a divorce, children essentially become homeless as they split their time between Mom’s home and Dad’s home. It’s very hard to have consistency and order. If mom was single from the beginning then the child misses out on having a dad in the home and that usually means less order and discipline as well.
Add in the fact that there has been a tremendous increase in non English speaking students and test scores will plummet. I’m not sure what it’s like in other parts of the country but the change here has been so dramatic that I can hardly believe it. The city in which I do my shopping, my family attends church and where our daughters’ dance studio is located is now about 20% Somalian and maybe 30% Latino. Huge shift in demographics for a town that still has a lutefisk dinner every fall.
They’re not spending enough money on education ( Do I really need the “sarc” tag?)
I will concede that teachers are not well-paid according to the usual norm that having a college degree supposedly guarantees a better income. But when you read the stats in the article, only about 20% of the school budget ($75,000 out of the $360,000-per-classroom)goes to teacher salaries and benefits. So there is a huge administrative overhead. If school officials would move only 4-6% from other areas into teacher salaries, the problem of low teacher salaries would be solved. But this never happens.
MN “education” was probably never as good as touted in the first place, but the people there would think it is.
Isn’t this the state whose athletic association voted that students could decide if they wanted to play on a boy or girl sports team??