5 thoughts on “The Gopher State”

  1. My mother, a former 30 year elementary teacher in central Illinois, has dust rising from the urn containing her cremated remains. She would be even more appalled than I am at this mess in our public schools. I am relieved to know that for this year at least, my granddaughters here in south central Washington will not have an “adjustment” to their normal curriculums for the coming year.

  2. The same illness is infecting Washington State schools. I sat in on a recent zoom meeting of the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity committee for our local high school. The meeting began with a brief report from students on the committee about the things they have been learning about. These include:

    • white nationalism,
    • systemic racism,
    • the Black Lives Matter 13 guiding principles,
    • complaints that the authors of work studied at the high school are only white men,
    • an anonymous reporting form for micro aggressions, and
    • how to hold teachers accountable.

    Sounding to me more like Communist self-denunciation sessions than anyting else, I asked the school board if they approved of these things and was met with a stonewall of silence as have my public records requests, which might be explained by the assertion from our Assistant Superintendent that he was challenged by his “whiteness”. My suggestion that he visit a tanning booth fell on deaf ears.

    To paraphrase my favorite movie line, they have messed with the wrong Marine.
    S/F

    1. Lenin said it best! And it is happening all over the country, except in FL. Our Gov has dictated the curriculums to be taught

  3. Great post, Jim. I haven’t seen the proposals for Minnesota’s new state flag, but I have one in mind. Green background with a half-crescent moon splotched across it, underneath the words MINNESOTASTAN and below that in smaller letters, “Disgracing our Veterans Since Hubert Humphrey”.

    I recall from years past, every year the school district I worked for produced a stupid motto for the upcoming year … something that I assume was intended to motivate teachers to do a better job in the classroom. One year, the motto was “Every Child Can Learn.” My response to that was, “No shit.” These mottos never motivated anyone, teacher, student, or parent and I never could understand why they even bothered. I guess district admin weenies have to do something for their living.

    With that in mind, one of the final paragraphs in your post reads, “The committee has articulated the need to make standards and supporting benchmarks more meaningful by attending to the race, ethnicity, identity, and lived experiences of young people in relation to civic life and acknowledging voices and experiences of marginalized youth.”

    Just what in the hell does that mean? How does anything in that quotation relate to preparing students for the real world of competition? What does “supporting benchmarks more meaningful by attending to the race …” mean? What a load of BS. People who say such things should be choked to death.

    Final question, what in the hell is marginalized youth? Are those the confused, deeply mentally disturbed morons who don’t know whether they’re supposed to sit or stand to pee? If that’s true, then yeah, they need to be marginalized. We do not need to acknowledge the voices of people who are psychiatrically disturbed — and this leads me to conclude that Bobbie Burnham places children in danger. Bobbie should be at least fired as “Assistant Commissar,” and maybe even shot. Sadly, though, Burnham is typical of the ZERO you should expect to find in the State DOE.

    So, twenty years from now, how competitive will Minnesotastan be when it economically ranks below Louisiana? Oh sure, the kids will be able to add simple numbers, but they will not know which bathroom to use.

    Crumbs.

    1. Great Comments and questions Mustang. I’m surprised that liberals’ even understand the terms and ideology they are expressing. My shock is that of the 176 who thus far read this post you are the only one who commented. Thank you sir!!

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