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This page is an initial release that generally gives the synopsis or summary of how and why our organization came into being to address these problems with the abuses by the Minnesota Department of Education:

When the Minnesota Department of Education published its "2020-2021  Social Studies Standards" it clearly demonstrated a fundamental disregard for keeping its exercise of power within the permissible latitudes.   The published "Standards," sadly, demonstrated a broader disregard and contempt for the proper use of government within Department of Education operations.   

The published "Standards" read as being, significantly, a de facto curriculum mandate, rather than standards.  The controlling Legislative authority specifically defines that the limit of what the Department of Education can do (with regard to the "updat[ing]" of standards) is to stop well short of mandating "curriculum."  The Department was supposed to make quite minor modifications to the existing standards for the progression of skills development over the course of K-12 education, in the various disciplines.   

The Department of Education experts, pedagogically, are supposed to be wary of change-of-narrative agendas and theories that have not had a generation or several generations to settle and become established (to prevent us from being subject to one generation's going-through-a-phase or partisan extreme views held for non-scholarly reasons).  What they show themselves to be doing, here, appears very much to be their taking animus from the narratives of one side of few recent election contests as if such were a foundation to base school curriculum.  The Department of Education looks like it believes itself to be implementing what they believe are the avant garde new ideas that will dominate tomorrow, rather sticking to almost entirely to what is known to be the most valuable teaching we have inherited.

Instead of limiting itself to such as mandating certain types of secondary source exercises in 10th Grade History, for example, the published "Standards" from the Department of Education has gone on somewhat of a "woke" tangent from the prior Standards, which,  in effect, control to-the-level-ofcurriculum with a heavy hand and one with clear signs of ideological bent.

The Department of Education might say, in response to this accusation, "well, we are not prescribing certain textbooks be taught in each class, so we're not mandating a curriculum," but the common sense and objective facts are that the published "Standards"  clearly mandate hundreds of messages and lessons be taught, to an improper extent and as would include mandates for many unsound, wrong, and improperly mandated messages and lessons.  

The work required of the Department of Education is to set out a progression of skills development exercises for school districts and teachers to accomplish, which best advances the capabilities and knowledge-basis of the next generations.   

Minnesotans' Legislators did not empower the Department of Education to enable, enforce, and control the use of classrooms to indoctrinate what are sometimes quite significantly wrong, perverse, and experimental ideologies.

There are various means of fixing these problems and getting a proper education Standards framework in place.  Legislative, litigative, and grassroots efforts may all be needed or important to accomplish the fix.   We are focused on spearheading that effort and could use your participation or support.

Our organization, "Education Standards," is founded to get the job done.  

Email info@mnstandards.org with questions

or call (651) 505-3111.

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