Letter: Why Do Students Want to Leave District Selcer 'Fixed?'

To the Editor:

The Edina Patch website reports that 400 petitions have just been handed to
the Hopkins School district requesting detachment to get their children out of the school system that Yvonne Selcer 'fixed."

According to the article, 97 percent of residents in the Parkwood Knolls
area want to get out of Selcer's educational paradise and have been petitioning the District and the Legislature to do so for years.

And they are not alone. Hopkins' student population has been decreasing for
years and shows no sign of reversing itself as parents, desperate to get their kids a decent education, queue up to enroll in schools not supervised for most of the past decade by Yvonne Selcer.

If Yvonne left the Hopkins school district in such great shape, why are
parents fleeing Hopkins for Edina and Minnetonka through open enrollment like the Israelites fleeing from Egypt? Could it be that, despite Hopkins spending the most per pupil of any of the surrounding districts, its schools produce terrible test scores and unhappy parents who want a better education (at a lower cost) from neighboring Edina and Minnetonka? I guess Yvonne's idea of 'saving' Hopkins is to cut costs by 'outsourcing' students to other districts.

We're told that we must send Selcer to St. Paul to do for Minnesota what she
did for Hopkins. Given her track record there (should we be so unwise as to elect her) we will see our taxes skyrocket, our debt increase and thousands of Minnesotans exchanging their Viking Purple for Packer Green as they
flee the state for the cheese-filled pastures of Wisconsin. If the DFL
liberal elites get their way and we send Yvonne Selcer and other tax-and-spend 'fixers' to the legislature, Minnesota will have to change its nickname from "North Star State" to "Selcer's Folly."

Solomon Poretsky, Minnetonka