The skyline is bright and modern but the city is rotting from the inside. Not even half of all students in the Minneapolis school system graduate from high school. The graduation rate for the USA as a whole is 75 percent.
Minneapolis is known as a very “progressive” city in terms of its “green-and-equal-all-over” politics. Enormous sums of money are spent on expensive green building design and green energy systems as well as an extraordinarily inefficient commuter and light rail system. And, taxpayers spend a lot of money trying to educate the city’s students. Yet, when it comes educating the young this “progressive” city can’t even get 50% of its children through high school. That’s a very special definition of “progress”.
I wonder if any of Minneapolis’ government and civic leaders are thinking they should take some of the resources spent on “green-and-equal” stuff and put it into sorting out what’s going wrong with the young in their city.
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