Is our school improving?

Did you know: New Stats are out for Northland Pines success?

Math Proficiency is 29%

Reading Proficiency is 38%

Science Proficiency is 28%

These stats are lower than last year?

A stat of 28% means 72% of the USA students are doing better than ours? A stat of 38% means 62% of students in the US are scoring better.

 If you knew your airline pilot had a 28% success rate in landing a plane safely would you fly on his plane?

If you had cancer and you were told the chances of surviving was 38%, would you celebrate?

Obviously we aren't ever going to receive 100% proficiency in our school system, but are we willing to allow or celebrate these outrageously low scores?

Please don't blame our teachers for these scores. Teachers are the tools. The Teachers are not the problem. What could be?

The new policy of Pines regarding controversial library books is changing?

Previously the policy was that books that were controversial were to be reviewed if found to be controversial, a form was to be filled out, and the principal and Library were to review the review. If they found the book to be non controversial they would keep the book, if not another review would be done and the policy included lots of hoops to be jumped through to get a controversial book to be removed. Admittedly a very long and drawn out and time-consuming protocol with subjective decisions made.

This policy has been revised and now parents have three choices.

1. Your child can choose any book at their discretion

2. Your child cannot choose any book at all

3. You as a parent get to decide whether your child can read any book in the library

This sounds like a great idea doesn't it!?

Books such as “Juliet Takes a Breath” or “I'll Give you the Sun” were in our public school library. Have you ever heard of them? Would you know the contents of these books ?

“Juliet Takes a Breath” a book in Pines library contains masturbation while in menstruation, adults using weed, adults in lesbian sexual relations?

“I'll Give You the Sun”, another Pines library book, contains underage rape, underage alcohol use, and homosexual fantasies.

Based on the new proposed policy for library books, both of these books along with over 100 more sexually explicit books, could be read by underage students. Based on the current policy these books are not restricted due to content

Did you know that sexually explicit material used to be limited to adults? Think about why there are ADULT bookstores. Just like R and X rated movies.

Hopefully this next tidbit is something all of you already know. Rates of suicide and the number of adolescents with mental health issues have sky rocketed in the last two decades,partly due to the effects of social media. There's a direct impact on an adolescent brain when it is introduced to sexually explicit material either visually or in text.

Since you are now aware of the abysmal proficiency scores, and the books that are available via the Pines Library, what do you think the focus should be for the Administration ? Business as usual? Or change? We need to be involved or our students will be sacrificed on the alter of woke ideology and emotional negligence.

by Ruth Pudlo