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Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Mayhem Rules in St. Paul Schools

Teachers, parents and students in the school district of St. Paul, Minnesota, are learning firsthand what happens when educators embrace ideologically driven, crackpot solutions for the achievement and disciplinary issues involving black students who are “victims” of “white privilege”: anarchy.

That anarchy comes courtesy of the district’s voluntary affiliation with Pacific Educational Group (PEG), an entity founded in 1992 by self-described “diversity expert” Glenn Singleton. As PEG’s website declares, it is their belief that “[s]ystemic racism is the most devastating factor contributing to the diminished capacity of all children.” As a result, they partner with educational systems “to transform them into racially conscious and socially just environments that nurture the spirit and infinite potential of all learners, especially students of color, American Indian students and their families.”

Superintendent Valeria Silva bought into this nonsense, engendering a seismic shift in the way discipline was meted out, based on statistics that showed black students being suspended at “alarming rates.” Thus suspension became a last resort, replaced with 20-minute “time outs” and counseling by a behavioral coach before offending students were sent back to the classroom. In the meantime, PEG offered “racial equity” training for teachers and staff, who were tasked with “exploring” their biases and prefacing their opinions with, “As a white man, I believe…” or “As a black woman, I think…” in an effort to discover their subconscious racism.

How’s it working out? Following district spending of more than $3 million on PEG programs over the last five years, local publication CityPages paints a depressing picture:

At John A. Johnson Elementary on the East Side, several teachers, who asked to remain anonymous, describe anything but a learning environment. Students run up and down the hallways, slamming lockers and tearing posters off the walls. They hit and swear at each other, upend garbage cans under teachers' noses.

“We have students who will spend an hour in the hallway just running and hiding from people, like it’s a game for them,” says one despondent teacher. “A lot of them know no one is going to stop them, so they just continue."

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wicomico has embraced the same notion that, if minority kids are getting in trouble a lot, they have to be innocent victims of teachers and administrators. This article is a preview of how allowing rule-breaking with no consequences benefits one group and cripples everybody else.

Anonymous said...

If you have no intention of ever holding a job, why not make education impossible for everyone else? Who will be employed and paying taxes to support the welfare loafers?

Anonymous said...

I noticed no mentioning of the large percentage of Somalian Students in St Paul that made past stories when they have had trouble there. The Progressive importing votes has it's costs ironically their most reliable patrons Teachers are suffering the worst

Anonymous said...

Welcome to Wicomico County Public Schools. Same type of thing has been implemented here. Just ask a teacher in any high school.