Being licensed by the state sure prevents corruption, doesn’t it?
Minnesota governor Tim Walz has claimed that it isn’t true that he and his administration have not done enough to address accusations of fraud in Minnesota. “We’ve spent years cracking down on fraud — referring cases to law enforcement, shutting down and auditing high-risk programs,” Walz wrote on social media.
Gee, that’s funny. Those of us living in Minnesota, who were paying attention, knew about the fraud since 2016 and didn’t hear anything about crackdowns.
I am a Montessori educator who taught children aged two and a half to seven for over forty years. During that time, but at separate times, I co-owned and co-operated two Montessori schools in the northwest section of the Minneapolis Twin City area. The schools were required to be licensed under Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 142B, even though they were Montessori schools, not daycare centers. The purpose of licensing was and is to protect the health and safety of children by ensuring that providers meet minimum standards for care and their physical environment.
Licensing entailed pop visits; equipment requirements; staff requirements; and endless, time-consuming, and many times unreasonable recordkeeping. Visits included observation in the classroom, reading personal child records, reading personal staff records, inspections, and so on.
Sometimes, if they didn’t find anything wrong, they would invent something. One time, a license agent criticized us for not having a way for children to get a drink of water. My assistant pointed to the water fountain. The licensor said, “Well, the two-year-olds can’t reach it.” My assistant pointed to the stool. Not to be outdone, the licensor insisted that two-year-olds don’t know how to drink out of a water fountain. My assistant pointed to the paper cups on the shelf. The response: “Well, I didn’t see them.” And because she didn’t know that the cups were there, we received a citation. After that inspection, the licensor went out to lunch with one of our parents and admitted that she had to find things wrong with places she licensed in order to justify her job.
In view of all this, I find it very hard to believe that Walz and his minions have fought the corruption since he became governor in 2019. Look at the results and form your own conclusion.
Walz criticized Trump for making derogatory remarks about the Somali community. My husband and I had some Somali families in our school, and, except for those who had assimilated, none of them worked out. They demanded that we remove from our classrooms any books, pictures, songs, figurines, etc. that had anything to do with dogs or pigs. They demanded that we delete dancing. We didn’t. I had a conference with a Somali father and his two wives. He also made demands, and I didn’t comply. The family left the school.
The Somali families didn’t follow our rules. I had a mother who arrived to school late every day and allowed her children to walk into the room during morning group time, which was disruptive. We notified parents that those who arrived late would need to wait five to ten minutes outside the classroom until group time was finished before entering the room. She argued with us. Another mother lied on the time sheet about her daughter’s attendance in after-school care. There wasn’t one family who paid tuition.
I once asked a very nice father some questions that I had heard about Islam. He was furious that I asked and was not so nice to me after that. A goal of Islam is to take over the world through immigration. The creepiest thing happened when a Somali father signed enrollment papers and said, with a smirk on his face, “Things are going to change.”
Multiculturalism preaches that all cultures are equal. They are not. Our cultures are not compatible. A culture that is corrupt takes corruption to the new country. It is hard for us to imagine this because in our country, we are surrounded, for the most part, with honest people who respect the rights of others.
Our sacred American culture is not compatible with a culture that values theft, deception, and enslavement. Combine an incompatible culture with socialist leadership in our government, and fraud is the result.
Originally published in The American Thinker.
