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    Racial identity policies are ruining Edina's (Minnesota) fabled schools

    Insane leftist indoctrination, starting in PRE-ELEMENTARY children. The taxpayers supporting this are either UNAWARE OF IT, or COMPLETE IDIOTS, letting this happen to their children. They are being FORCED INTO THE LEFT'S RACIAL OBSSESSION, INSTEAD OF BEING TAUGHT TO BE "COLOR BLIND":

    Racial identity policies are ruining Edina's fabled schools

    Instead of striving for academic excellence, jackboot methods are being used to force students to think "correctly" on social issues.
    For years, the Edina Public Schools (EPS) have been one of the brightest stars in the firmament of Minnesota public education. Parents who moved to the affluent Twin Cities suburb gladly paid a hefty premium for a house, because it meant their kids could attend the district’s top-notch schools.

    But today, test scores are sinking in Edina’s fabled schools. One in five Edina High School students can’t read at grade level and one in three can’t do grade-level math. These test results dropped EHS’s ranking among Minnesota high schools from 5th to 29th in reading proficiency, and from 10th to 40th in math proficiency between 2014 and 2017. Across the district, about 30 percent of kids are not “on track for success” in reading, and the same is true for math.













    A number of factors may be at work here. Clearly, however, there’s been a profound shift in district leaders educational philosophy. In place of academic excellence for all, the district’s primary mission is now to ensure that students think correctly on social and political issues — most importantly, on race and “white privilege.”

    District leaders enshrined this new mission in EPS’s “All for All” strategic plan, adopted in 2013. The plan mandates that, going forward, the EPS must view “all teaching and learning experiences” through the “lens of racial equity.”
    If “equity” meant “treating kids equally,” all thinking Minnesotans would support it. In this context, however, it’s code for racial identity politics — a simplistic blaming of “white privilege” for the racial learning gap and any other problems that minority populations experience.
    The “All for All” plan mandates sweeping change to how education is delivered in Edina. For example, it dictates that, from now on, the district will hire “racially conscious teachers and administrators.” It also declares that students must “acquire an awareness of their own cultural identity and value racial, cultural and ethnic diversities.”

    In education-speak, this means that Edina children will now be instructed that their personal, cultural “identity” is irrevocably tied to their skin color. This directly rejects the colorblind vision that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. pioneered, and that the vast majority of Americans share.




    http://www.startribune.com/racial-id...ols/449825893/
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    You knew it was coming to this. Close all public schools, fire the teachers they aren't teaching anything but their own agendas anyway. Parents can either pay for private school or, homeschool.

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    There is not enough time to teach Political Correctness and the studies needed for life skills. Even liberal educators admit that. Put the powers to be in education put political correctness before anything else and thats why the USA spends more than most all other countries and were not near the top in scores and especially math and science
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    The insane , Alinski, Stalinist left is destroying one of the nation's premier school systems, is the real $#@! of it all....
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