The bill that the Metrocrats chose to call the “Safe and Supportive Minnesota Schools Act” passed the Senate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Let’s look at what’s in a name.\u00a0 Because the name “Safe and Supportive Minnesota Schools Act” is intensely misleading – almost to a geometric fault.<\/p>\n
There are so many names for this bill that are more appropriate:<\/p>\n
The Redundant Feel-Good Act<\/strong>:\u00a0 Every school district already has a bullying policy.\u00a0 It’s the law.\u00a0<\/p>\n The\u00a0PC Payoff Act:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>This bill\u00a0– probably soon to be a law – is a chit\u00a0being paid back to the DFL’s supporters by the party currently in power, creating not only a protected class of students, but a super-di-duper protected class.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Full Employment For Bureaucrats Act<\/strong>:\u00a0 This bill – which creates a huge unfunded mandate on top of all the others foisted on our school systems, to the point where many districts are nothing but mandate delivery systems with occasional spurts of “education” – will create a whole new class of administrators.\u00a0 And they’ll belong to unions, who donate their dues money to the DFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Full Employment For Trial Lawyers Act<\/strong>:\u00a0 The bill makes the entire process of dealing with “bullying” even more legalistic than it already is.\u00a0 Legalistic means “designed to be controlled, and especially litigated (at an exquisitely expensive hourly rate) by lawyers”.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Type-Cast Your Child For Life Act<\/strong>:\u00a0 Everything related to everything that can be defined as “bullying”, no matter how torturously, will become part of a child’s permanent academic record.\u00a0 Which will affect childrens’ future chances at higher education, jobs, the military, jobs requiring security clearances and the like, long after the child has grown out of whatever phase they were in when they were <\/em>bullies (and that’s assume they were rightly and justly accused of “bullying”, since the bill is also…)<\/p>\n “Stasi Had The Right Idea!” Act<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 Anonymous informants?\u00a0 Giving those who accuse others of bullying complete immunity from consequences if it turns out that the accusations were fabricated?\u00a0<\/p>\n The “Further Proof That North Dakotans Are Smarter Than Minnesotans” Act<\/strong>:\u00a0 Other states – including our grown-up neighbor, my home state of North Dakota – address bullying by addressing bullying<\/em>,\u00a0passing laws that address\u00a0actual behavior rather than creating\u00a0the infrastructure for a network of secret denunciations and…<\/p>\n The Ideology Police Act<\/strong>:\u00a0 …making all beliefs that don’t toe the PC line, especially personal religious beliefs, however manifested or stated, a form of behavior that\u00a0needs to be watched and suppressed, overtly or subtly, “for the good of the children”.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n