{"id":86291,"date":"2023-10-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86291"},"modified":"2023-10-20T11:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:26:53","slug":"an-idea-almost-too-crazy-to-comprehend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86291","title":{"rendered":"An Idea Almost Too Crazy To Comprehend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Enrollment at Twin Cities schools continues to erode:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The number of students in the Minneapolis and St. Paul school districts continues to decline. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CqSPmvS8wV\">https:\/\/t.co\/CqSPmvS8wV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1715384675043074293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll wait for the Walz\/Flanagan administration to register their theatrical shock that &#8220;free&#8221; mystery meat and unrestricted gay porn in school libraries isn&#8217;t drawing students like Dave Matthews fans to the last bag of Cheetoz.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I have a question.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This seems like the sort of story where <em>someone <\/em>could spend some time finding out whether the parents of senior DFL leadership in the Twin Cities and the state overall &#8211; the ones who <em>have <\/em>kids, at least &#8211; send <em>their <\/em>kids to the schools their union patrons run.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many City Councilpeople, Mayors, policy staffers, senior bureaucrats and school leadership send their children to Minneapolis and Saint Paul, or indeed <em>any<\/em>, public schools?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <em>printing presses <\/em>or <em>transmitterds<\/em>, to do some reporting . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty crazy, I know. .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enrollment at Twin Cities schools continues to erode: We&#8217;ll wait for the Walz\/Flanagan administration to register their theatrical shock that &#8220;free&#8221; mystery meat and unrestricted gay porn in school libraries isn&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-minneapolis","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86291","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=86291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86292,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86291\/revisions\/86292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}