as we saw last week<\/a>, to a great extent education – at least, big institutional education – follows prosperity.\u00a0 Not the other way around.\u00a0<\/p>\nAnd Minnesota prospered, especially during the “Minnesota Miracle”, as much due to its human, social and economic geography as anything else.\u00a0 It was the economic, social, population and communications center of a large, productive region – especially at a time when the United States as a whole had no competition.\u00a0 So while it certainly helped that Minnesota had a strong education system, it helped even more that we were in the right place at the right time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0All the more reason to spend more on education!<\/p>\n
MITCH: Is it?\u00a0 Is our education system in Minnesota worth what we spend on it now?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Especially given the number of black, Latino and Asian Minnesotans who are being served so very very badly by our current system?\u00a0 Pouring money into a status quo that is decaying fast and is doing little more than resting on the laurels of an earlier era – and let’s not even address whether those laurels were especially deserved – is a huge mistake.\u00a0<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0You are clearly a racist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
MITCH:\u00a0 For wanting to fix a system that discriminates against minority Minnesotans?<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Yep!\u00a0 Sometimes you have to show them what’s right!<\/p>\n
MITCH: Huh.<\/p>\n
(And SCENE)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I met my friend Avery LIBRELLE yesterday out on the bike trail.\u00a0 Avery, naturally, rides a recumbant bike.\u00a0 Go figure. LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Hah!\u00a0 Tom Stinson, the state economist, says that Minnesota is doing pretty well!\u00a0 And that our education system is one of the reasons!\u00a0 MITCH:\u00a0 Well, good! LIBRELLE:\u00a0Hah!\u00a0 Better than good!\u00a0 It means the DFL […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,68],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-37153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-capitalism-v-socialism","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37156,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37153\/revisions\/37156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}