Posted on 10/08/2015 6:55:35 AM PDT by TigerClaws
They’re not spending enough money on education ( Do I really need the “sarc” tag?)
Minnesota schools were superior to other states I most subjects according to national tests used. In fact the tope states were all upper Midwestern states up until the great social upheaval of the 1960’s,
After that every goofy liberal theory was thrown into the curriculum of MN public schools.
Because the MN public school systems are now overwhelmed by immigrants from Somali and illegals from south of the border, plus the insistences of adding inconsequential subjects to the daily lessons - the old-fashioned reading, writing and ‘rithmetic are no longer the top priorities of the public schools. Thank goodness for the parochial schools and other private schools which are still insisting on respect toward teachers, and good study habits.
It is for this reason that Catholic schools in MN are experiencing a small resurgence, despite the high tuition costs.
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.
My grandson recently moved from his suburban school to a school in West Seattle. I was amazed to learn that the school is about 80-90% minority, many of them fairly recent immigrants.
They think they can because bars are lowered until accreditation can occur.
After all, everyone deserves a trophy, don't they?
MN “education” was probably never as good as touted in the first place, but the people there would think it is.
“Happy slaves of the state: now that describes the general American population based on their long-term voting.
This confirms your “White Privilege” comment.......
Notice how many MN schools are on the list.
What the heck is wrong with these people? (rhetorical, I know)!
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??
It has to do with both. I've observed the Minneapolis Public Schools from the inside and I can tell you, it's both.
That is the aim of socialism: It embeds dependency in the masses. It is why we have to destroy the public school system and Common Core and remove socialism from our country. It is impossible to NOT have a dependency mindset, if raised in such an evil system which embeds ideology in children.
That is why Shafarevich stated and Solzhenitsyn reiterated, that Socialism rots the Soul.
From Shafarevich’s book, “The Socialist Phenomenon” he states (forward by Solzhenitsyn): The reason for the collapse of the Inca empire must be apparently sought elsewhere—in the complete atrophy of individual initiative, in the ingrained habit of acting on at the direction of officials, in the spirit of stagnation and apathy.”
He adds, “weakening of” and “complete destruction of family relationships”—”complete regimentation of life”, etc.
It reminds me of the operant conditioning in “Common Core” which intentionally destroys Virtue and undermines the Family using Fichte/Wundtian Psychology, which will result in that “Inca” Mindset.
Fichte 1810 on “Prussian education (which we adopted) when we destroyed Classical Education (tools for critical thinking):
“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.”
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