What Could Go Wrong?
By Mitch Berg
The DFL Senate passed an education bill that includes all-day kindergarten, but eliminates proficiency testing to graduate from high school.
In other words, it made school worth less, but gave us more of it, for more money.
But Sen. Sean Nienow, R-Cambridge, criticized the bill for eliminating the current test high school students must pass to graduate.
“A student no longer has to pass a test, or get any score on a test, and a student doesn’t have to demonstrate proficiency to graduate. What does that mean? It means your diploma is meaningless,” Nienow said.
What is means is that the Mother State wants to start indoctrinating your kids full-time a year earlier (for now), and that “learning” isn’t really the objective, and that if you want your kids to by anything but duckspeak-chanting little drones (especially if you live in Minneapolis, Saint Paul or Duluth), you need to get them out of The System.
April 26th, 2013 at 8:21 am
….good, compliant little democrats….
April 26th, 2013 at 9:08 am
All-day kindergarten is an easy sell. Think of all the “pre-school education” (baby-sitting) money it will save the working parents of five-year-olds.
Not only does it save them money, it removes the guilt of having to pay strangers to raise their kids; this is real “school”, not a pre-school (feel-good title for a kiddie kennel). Plus, think of all the dues-paying “educators” (teachers, assistants, admin., janitors, lunch ladies) who will get jobs. Plus, it’s all free.
Too bad the daycare workers didn’t organize. They might have gotten a taste of this, too.
Win-win-win …
April 26th, 2013 at 10:32 am
It’s appalling to have such an obvious quid pro quo between the DFL and the teachers’ unions, but I have to wonder whether the kindergarten teachers are going to regret this one. 20 five year olds or more for eight hours? We are talking some serious chaos here.
And I wonder how the DFL is going to repay the daycare people for the money they’re losing. Oh, wait, that’s right; they’re not unionized, and they’re not a big donor to the DFL. My mistake, sorry.
April 26th, 2013 at 7:06 pm
If you have a kid in a urban public school anywhere in America, your kids are getting a shit education. Do you really need to see it printed out in black and white?
April 26th, 2013 at 10:36 pm
Further evidence, were any necessary, that the single most important and necessary thing you can do is to get your kids/grandkids out of the gubmint skulz.