In trying to explain differential private school enrollment rates, Jim Mork said:
"St Paul is more Catholic. Catholics are the biggest percentage of private schools." What was most telling in the recent Stribe article was that the single parent who had sent her kids to a Catholic school was NOT Catholic (or at least her kids were not), so the particular religious perspective was apparently not her motivation. She was looking for a learning and socialization environment that she could not find in the free public schools. (She liked the "attention and disciplene" in the private school, and saw the Minneapolis public schools as "overwhelming, huge, not challenging.") http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3317260.html A message is being sent to the public schools; parents are voting with their feet. It is incumbent on the purveyours of the public school system to open their ears and listen, humbly, and then do some serious self-examination. As Oliver Cromwell said: "Sir, I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, is it possible you might be mistaken?" It think it was a tragedy for local education reform, as well as a symbol of majority tyranny (as per Lani Guinier, a supporter of PR), that a thoughtful contrarian thinker like Mike Atherton was knocked out of even participation in the Minneapolis School Board General Election. Alan Shilepsky Downtown _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
