An Idea Almost Too Crazy To Comprehend
By Mitch Berg
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 where someone could spend some time finding out whether the parents of senior DFL leadership in the Twin Cities and the state overall – the ones who have kids, at least – send their kids to the schools their union patrons run.
How many City Councilpeople, Mayors, policy staffers, senior bureaucrats and school leadership send their children to Minneapolis and Saint Paul, or indeed any, public schools?
This is the sort of thing that would call for, I dunno, some class of self-styed monastic seekers of information, perhaps working for institutions with printing presses or transmitterds, to do some reporting .
Pretty crazy, I know. .
October 23rd, 2023 at 11:17 am
A far-right MAGA-blogger committed an act of violence today when he demanded reporters doxx the schools where public officials educate their children.
“This is simply unacceptable,” said Governor Walz. “No one has a right to subject children to stalkers and pedophiles except public school officials.”
Attorney General Ellison vowed to look into charges for inciting journalism and conspiring to release truthful but embarassing. information. AFSCME and Teachers Union officials called for buses to haul protesters to march outside the offenders residence. “Hate speech has consequences,” said one.
Mayor Wilson has ordered police to establish a 10 block perimeter around the residence, free of law enforcement personnel, to avoid any unpleasant encounters with protesters which may occur while they are exercising their First Amendment rights to destroy property and burn buildings in a mostly peaceful manner.
October 23rd, 2023 at 12:14 pm
Very clever, Big guy.
October 23rd, 2023 at 12:40 pm
“inciting journalism”
🤣
October 23rd, 2023 at 3:04 pm
I’m reminded of cities that require their police and other employees to live within city limits, and I wonder if the same agreement ought to hold for schoolteachers and the like. Either that, or there ought to be some rebukes to the teachers’ union for their hypocrisy.
October 23rd, 2023 at 10:59 pm
Star Trib: Minneapolis has lost 7000 students.
Bikebubble: “Require teachers to live in city limits…”
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October 24th, 2023 at 8:36 am
So I was a substitute teacher in the St. Paul School district and in addition to a very prestigious private school in St. Paul 10 years ago. Remember Larry Pogemiller? He of the MN legislature and a staunch supporter to teacher’s unions? Well he sent his kids, under his wife’s name to this very prestigious St. Paul School. When talking to public school teachers, they lived in the suburbs or sent their kids to religious schools. They admitted they would never send their kids to St. Paul public schools. Anecdotal-yes, but i talked to a lot of teachers during that time.
October 25th, 2023 at 3:01 am
Betty, we sent all our kids to private, religious schools. But because I felt a sense of responsibility (its true; imagine that) I volunteered to grade papers for public school teachers and tutor public school students. Eventually, I became so enraged by what I was seeing I ran for SPPS board.
I learned the majority of SPPS parents that bother to pay attention at all are getting exactly what they want out of public schools. I never set foot in another public school, or board meeting again.
October 25th, 2023 at 3:08 am
Also, if I’m not mistaken, Pogmiller is a De LaSalle grad.
Why would he even consider giving his own kids a third rate education when yours can pay the price of having a leftist, degenerate, trade labor union run the show?