No less an authority than Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream informs me that public schools are hotbeds of systemic racism.
No less an authority than President Trump informed me that racism is evil.
Plainly, then, the conclusion must be obvious: public schools are evil.
Minnesota spends more than $13 Billion per year promoting evil.
We should stop doing that.
We should close all public schools at once.
Parents who care about education and who can afford to send their children to private school, will.
Parents who care about education but who can’t afford to send their children to private school, will home school.
Parents who care about education but who can’t afford to send their children to private school nor to home school them will be out of luck and their children will grow up ignorant and poor like their parents who probably were Trump voters anyway, so they deserve it.
Teachers, administrators, support staff laid off when the schools close, should learn to code.
Joe Doakes
The thing about calling racism “structural” is you gotta get rid of the “structure” to fix it.
Minneapolis public school students are 2/3 non-white.
https://mpls.k12.mn.us/uploads/mps_budget_-_at_a_glance.pdf
Minneapolis public schools spends ~$20,000 per student per year.
Does it not follow that Education Minnesota is the most racist organization in the state?
Gosh, you want a clear cut example of “systemic racism”?
Try seniority.
So let’s fix that.
1) Add up all the years of seniority for all teachers in Minnesota.
2) Distribute those years equally across all racial and ethnic categories.
Do that and watch the teachers howl.
I don’t think Minneapolis or St. Paul public schools have managed to graduate more than 65% of the yearly cohorts for the past 25 years. 25% of the students that go on to college, the cream of the crop so to speak, are required to take remedial classes in Math and English before moving on to college level coursework. The year over year cost for that failure has gone up over 150% in that time.
Mississippi gets a much bigger return on their investment…who are the ignorant hillbillies now?