Untrue North

"Hey Watz! Stick to you knitting! And the health of your citizens should be you knitting."

Anybody else hear the presser yesterday? It sure was refreshing to hear about our broken education system once again, rather than how to fix our much more broken vaccine distribution system. Seems the same group of morons who broke our education system, now have the bright idea on how to fix it. And it will involve more (gasp!) money. Not any old type of money - YOUR MONEY! Because Mr. and Mrs. Tightwad (taxpayers) who live in this country have not ponied up enough, we have systemic racism in our education system. And that - is prohibiting our little darlings from learning. Huh?

I have addressed this issue so many times in the past, my fingers are sore from typing about it. First (and most important), the intelligence difference between the races. Surprise! There aren't any! Been proven over and over again, that white kids, black kids, brown kids, red kids, and yellow kids, are all equal in their ability to learn. Even though Dr. William Shockley tried his level best to prove some races were superior to others in learning, he failed. Many subsequent studies proved him to be dead wrong on that subject. Income level may make a difference, but not skin color.

Here is the bottom line. Since it has been proven that most all kids have the ability to learn, what is the problem? The problem can be summed up this way - if you find yourself in the ditch, quit driving in the same direction. Get out of the ditch. And to get out of the ditch, you stop throwing bad money after good. In other words - reclama. Get rid of the old system, and use ones which has been proven to work - for EVERYONE! The only systemic racism I can see in our education system, is Education Minnesota hoisting this broken system on the poor and powerless. Pouring more money in this broken system, will only further deepen the systemic racism in our education system.

Our Lt. Gov., who is full of personal agendas, also wants us to teach "true indigenous history" in schools. Huh? Does that mean that some districts are still teaching "Cowboys and Indians"? That was never taught to me when I was in school, and I am old! I think our school system as well as our State Park systems, do a fine job in teaching true history (including indigenous) in this state. Yes, warts and all, true history.

But I would bet our Lt. Gov. wants to go one step beyond teaching "true indigenous history". Being a good Democrat, she would like to have revisionist history taught. Instead of making the early white man looked flawed at times, have the white settlers appear to be evil incarnate. Were some of the early treaties broken? Yes, they were. Did the Natives get a square deal? Not in my opinion. That being said, the history taught should be fair and square. If there were failings on both sides, teach it. 

Meanwhile, back in the pandemic, things are a mess. Hey Watz! Stick to you knitting! And the health of your citizens should be you knitting. PS - "Untrue North" will go nowhere in the Senate. Good luck with that one! Next time come with a better solution - and try to keep your lips off of the butt of Education Minnesota.