{"id":76593,"date":"2021-01-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76593"},"modified":"2021-01-28T06:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T12:23:29","slug":"government-by-platitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76593","title":{"rendered":"Government By Platitude"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Walz released&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;well, he called it his &#8220;education plan&#8221;, earlier this week.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those of us who work in business &#8211; which significantly, has never included anyone in our executive branch &#8211; can identify what this&#8230;thing, is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"748\" height=\"1003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1416.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76591\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1416.jpg 748w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1416-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a two page list of platitudes.  One and a half when you leave out the header.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1415.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76592\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1415.jpg 750w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1415-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>None of it has specifics.  None of it is testable to see if it&#8217;s working or isn&#8217;t, in any way.   And while we are assured that there&#8217;s more &#8220;plan&#8221; coming, mark my words &#8211; there&#8217;ll be no more substance in the thousands of pages of institutional gobbledigook that are surely to come.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But let&#8217;s translate the terms from their current Educational\/Bureaucratic dialect &#8211; the form of English with the lowest signal to noise ratio of all our many argots &#8211; into actual English:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;&#8216;Caring and Qualified&#8217; Teachers&#8221; &#8211; Get ready to get logrolled with a few  years of sob stories about how underpaid teachers, especially in the Metro, are. <\/li><li>&#8220;Expand opportunities and mental health staff&#8221; &#8211; Full employment for soft-science and non-profiteers in the school system. <\/li><li>&#8220;Statewide Mentor Program to help retain teachers&#8221; &#8211;<\/li><li>&#8220;Expand full service community school model statewide&#8221; &#8211;  We need to expand the system&#8217;s efficiency at transferring taxpayer dollars, not just to Education Minnesota, but to the non-profit\/industrial complex that&#8217;s attached to it like a remora fish &#8211; and all you schools in greater Minnesota need to step up and do your bit. <\/li><li>&#8220;Establish an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Center&#8221; &#8211; Because why should we pay Pacific Consulting Group millions to screw up our schools when we&#8217;ve got PCG-trained career bureaucrats who can do it for us.   Although we&#8217;ll still be transferring plenty of wealth to PCG.  <\/li><li>&#8220;Expand rigorous coursework options&#8221; &#8211; You bought an education system!  Now, for just a few billion more, you can have one that actually teaches stuff to kids!  Maybe!<\/li><li>&#8220;Prioritize school funding to the students that need it most&#8221; and &#8220;Guarantee that compensatory aid funding supports students traditionally left behind&#8221; &#8211; jigger the various knobs and levers to move more money to the Metro. <\/li><li>&#8220;One time investment  to ensure pandemic enrollment loss does not negatively affect students.&#8221; &#8211; parents and students are bailing on the public schools in record numbers.  We need a bailout. <\/li><li>&#8220;Strengthen community and school partnerships&#8221; &#8211;  No &#8220;community&#8221; non-profit left behind. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope that helps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Walz released&#8230; &#8230;well, he called it his &#8220;education plan&#8221;, earlier this week. Those of us who work in business &#8211; which significantly, has never included anyone in our executive branch &#8211; can identify what this&#8230;thing, is. It&#8217;s a two page list of platitudes. One and a half when you leave out the header. 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