?\u00a0 It\u2019s a mystery.\u00a0 Now that the staff member doing the survey has been let go, we may never find out.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Looking at the chart, there appears to be some overlap in causes since the percentages work out to 114% and even under Common Core math, that\u2019s not a reasonable answer.\u00a0 But just looking at the top three responses, I think I detect a pattern.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>40% said \u201cWe moved.\u201d\u00a0 I wonder why they moved?\u00a0 Better job outside the district?\u00a0 Seems unlikely, the economy isn\u2019t that robust.\u00a0 Maybe they moved to GET outside the district?\u00a0 But why would they do that? Who\u2019d want to leave the vibrant diversity of Frogtown to live in monochrome, monoculture Woodbury?<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>36% said \u201cthe school was unsafe.\u201d\u00a0 But St. Paul just adopted new discipline policies to let Children Whose Lives Matter run wild.\u00a0 That\u2019ll cut down on reported discipline statistics which will be a big help, won\u2019t it?\u00a0 After the news accounts of violence in the last two years and the \u201cdon\u2019t-bother-to-catch-go-straight-to-release\u201d policy in effect, why would families think schools would be unsafe?<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>30% said \u201cchild was harassed\/bullied.\u201d Well that\u2019s just whining.\u00a0 All kids are harassed and bullied, especially kids with Privilege who deserve it.\u00a0 That\u2019s no excuse to leave the school. Pulling your kids out of our school costs us pupil-day money and that\u2019s a racist hate crime.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Yep, it\u2019s a total mystery why parents are pulling their kids out of St. Paul schools.\u00a0 Luckily, there are paid consultants to offer possible suggestions, some cited in the article.\u00a0 More arts classes might help.\u00a0 Different languages, smaller class sizes, better special education.\u00a0 Maybe training, to teach parents not to expect so much from schools like order, discipline, learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>I hope they figure it out soon.\u00a0 A child\u2019s education is not an experiment you can do over if it fails the first time, it\u2019s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to avoid a life of misery.\u00a0 All those minds would be a terrible thing to waste on fantasy feel-good foolishness.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nJoe’s got some good ideas…<\/p>\n
…but when you combine a “one size fits all” model of education, combined with a system that is designed to provide sinecures for the ruling political class’s care and feeding much more than “educating” people (despite the best efforts of a lot of teachers), what do they expect?<\/p>\n
Or, more importantly, what do they expect you to expect?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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