Category: Education
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Frustrating
No true Doakes post would disagree.
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In Defense Of The Brain
It’s not news to anyone who’s been following the subject – education is in crisis. And the mainstream conservative response seems to be “let it burn!” If you talk with a lot of mainstream conservatives, the kids should be heading straight out into apprenticeship programs and becoming electricians, HVAC techs, plumbers, truckers… And I get…
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The Press Conference I’d Like To See: Take 2
TAKE 2: A couple of key paragraphs disappeared from this one on Friday, the first time I tried it… SCENE: A press conference at the Minnesota State University system. Spokesperson Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK stands nervously in front of a podium, facing a gaggle of barely-engaged press, and Mitch BERG of Shot in the Dark/AM1280/HotAir. BIRKENSTOCK: So,…
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Schooled
Joe Doakes, looking at Como Park through his rear-view mirror, emails: Harvard is pushing back against President Trump’s demands for reform. President Obama praised them for resisting. He is joined by several Thoughtful Republicans Of Moderate Bona fides On Neither Extreme Side (TROMBONES, the new and more acceptable word for people formerly known as RINOs)…
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DOGE: Making Australia Australian Again
I’ll admit it – two months of DOGE has made me a little inured to stories about outlandish things that the Federal Government spends our money on. Promoting DEI in Serbia? Transgender comic books in Peru? Yaaawn. Get back to me when you’ve got something interesting. So when I heard that there…
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A Cold Mississippi, Only Dumber
Reading and math scores in Minnesota schools are lagging behind those of smug Minnesotans’ eternal punching bag, Mississippi. This should fix that: That’ll fix things.
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Your Tax Dollars At Work
University of Kansas prof says that men who don’t vote for Harris/Klink should be… Well, it’s all right here. Go for it. Not that this is news, necessarily. The University issued one of those “Oaaaaakaaaay, we’ll look into it, because hypothetically that’s not the kind of thing we approve of here, if it happened…” statements…
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Pounce
In my interview with former Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka last Saturday, we talked about the depths of Governor Klink’s radicalism. With that in mind – with any luck, this should turn up in the Veep debate tonight: In a very significant development — I am almost prepared to say the most significant development in…
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Outcomes
Look – it’s not like there’s any reason at all, ever, that I’d vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I am not better off than I was four years ago, and likely either are you. But in addition to the whole “communist” thing, she appears to have been exactly the kind of soulless bureacratic…
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The Kristallnacht Theme Park
Harvard and MIT disgraced the nation’s “elite academia” last year. Columbia says “hold my kombucha”: Yep – progs standing in the door of the schoolhouse, trying to keep the race they hate out. Is a single Democrat office-holder or leader anywhere going to condemn this? “Columbia University’s Public Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish…
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Saint Louis Park Schools Seeks Word Salad Chef
Saint Louis Park Public Schools is looking for a new Assistant Superintendent. But not just any Assistant Super. Nosirreebob. This one is going to have some extra special administrator-fu (emphasis added): The first sentence of the position’s summary says, “the Assistant Superintendent proactively supports the Superintendent to create and communicate anti-racist structures and systems, works…
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EdMinn’s Curious Self-Indictment
Wait – didn’t the DFL in the Legislature spend most of April and May of last year doing the endzone happy dance celebrating having “fully funded” education? I do believe they did. So – what is up with this? Now, when you asked a DFL legislator or an EdMN partisan what “Full Funding” meant, the…
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Fully Fungible
A friend of the blog emails: How can St Paul Teachers be voting to strike for more money? Weren’t Minnesota schools fully funded? They left themselves a pretty clever out. It’s fiendish genius, really. Also destroys education, and contributes to the destruction of a civil society, but tomayto tomahto.
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The Real Villains
Just another day at Lakeville North last Tuesday. Those darn Swedish and German kids mixing it up again. Fortunately, the administration was focused like a laser beam on the real problem: That’d be the kids distributing the video. The Government/Industrial complex has learned from the DFL/Media complex: If nobody hears about an incident, it never…
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Let’s Not Forget…
…who the real victim in the Claudine Gay flap at Harvard (according to the university’s governing “Corportation”) actually is. It’s Claudine Gay: “And she’d have gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for those darn meddling pouncing conservativesI”! And while Gay is gone, let’s remember that it’s not for the reason she should have been…
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Settler Projects
Among the “setter projects” that Americans established as we (yes) conquered the North American continent, along with representative democracy, were universities. And I’m thinking that those are among the “settler projects”… …that actually need to be dismantled. Or at least, it’s time for an actual honest-to-god McCarthy-style purge of Universities.
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Inconvenient
I wonder if the members of the DFL “coalition”… …will start to put together for themselves how much of that “alliance” is built on social gaslighting and browbeating by their white, pronouned, “progressive” overseers. (and, naturally, their “leaders” bellying up to the trough for their graft paymetns)?
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Backlash: Sooner Than Later
The Governor of Oklahoma has abolished the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion office at all state institutions of higher education: Let’s roll this snowball.
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Junk Food For Thought
One the current tropes among the populist right is that “college is useless, and you should send your kids to learn a trade”. There’s a truck loaded with cinder blocks full of truth in there – for many 18 year olds, a year or two spent learning how to weld, be an electrician or mechanic…
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Fake News?
Someone claiming to be MN State Senator Grant Hauschild posted this on TWitter yesterday: This must be a Russian hoax. Hauschild,and the rest of the DFL caucus in the legislature, to say nothing of the Flanagan/Klink Administration, spent the whole first half of summer high-fiving each other over “fully funding education” (in between selfies of…
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America’s Hitler Youth
Americans overwhelmingly consider Hamas a terrorist organization, and condemn the wanton slaughter of October 7. But among Americans under 24 years old, the split between pro-humanity and pro-Hamas is not only depresslingly closely-fought, but the pro-terror side has a slight edge. Putting it bluntly, a thin majority of young Americans are OK with genocide. They…
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An Idea Almost Too Crazy To Comprehend
Enrollment at Twin Cities schools continues to erode: We’ll wait for the Walz/Flanagan administration to register their theatrical shock that “free” mystery meat and unrestricted gay porn in school libraries isn’t drawing students like Dave Matthews fans to the last bag of Cheetoz. But I have a question. This seems like the sort of story…
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No Free Lunch
With the advent of taxpayer paid school lunch for literally every student in the state of Minnesota, a friend of the blog emails: So have you figured out the menu for the first bunch of rich folk’s kids you’ll be buying lunch. I think mine will be liver and onions and lutefisk so they’ll never…
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Going Just Fine
The deeply conservative sheriff of Jim Hogg County, Texas, has decided to remove its school resource officers from schools in that rural central Texas county. Sheriff Jimmy Bob Throckmorton yesterday announced that the Jim Hogg County School District had put bizarre and unworkable restrictions on his deputies. Oops. Did I say Sheriff Jimmy Bob Throckmorton…