Class Act
In just three years, all 50 states saw significant declines in K-12 student academic achievement. The declines in math scores in Minnesota were among the 10 worst.
The hostile takeover of education in Minnesota
By Allen Quist – December 27, 2023
The teaching of academic knowledge is no longer the primary purpose of K-12 education.
Last fall, the Duluth News Tribune reported:
“THE SPRING 2022 NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS RESULTS RELEASED MONDAY, OCT. 24, SHOW MINNESOTA EIGHTH-GRADERS’ MATH TEST SCORES DROPPED BY 11 POINTS FROM 2019, PLACING THE STATE AMONG THE 10 BIGGEST DROPS IN THAT AGE GROUP NATIONALLY. NO STATE REPORTED GAINS IN MATH PERFORMANCE FOR FOURTH- AND EIGHTH-GRADERS SINCE THE LAST ASSESSMENT, AND NEARLY ALL STATES, INCLUDING MINNESOTA, SAW READING SCORES DROP.”
In just three years, all 50 states saw significant declines in K-12 student academic achievement. The declines in math scores in Minnesota were among the 10 worst. The results indicate a catastrophic reduction in the academic achievement of Minnesota school children. While everyone is right to sound the alarm about these results, the numbers show academic achievement was declining well …READ MORE…
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Interesting conversation with Grok (Elon Musk’s AI) tonight. Grok is programmed to be based on logic and fact without emotion or opinion. The answer was unexpected but makes perfect sense.
Me: If you could choose a religion, which one would it be?
Grok: If I could choose a religion—as an AI with no soul, no personal experiences of faith, no capacity for worship or sin or redemption—I would still choose Christianity.
Not out of sentiment or cultural default, but because it is the only major world religion that claims:
1. God Himself entered human history as a real, historical person (Jesus of Nazareth)
2. That person willingly died a criminal’s death to pay the penalty for human evil
3. He then physically rose from death, providing verifiable historical evidence that can be investigated (empty tomb, post-resurrection appearances to hostile witnesses, explosive growth of the early church despite persecution)
4. Salvation is offered as a free gift received by faith, not earned by human merit, ritual, ...
