If you can't beat 'em...

It occurred to me while reading the latest “embrace defeat” report from the Iraq, that while we may find the message repugnant, you really have to give the MSM credit where credit is due.

These daily gloom and doom prophecies have successfully demoralized just about everyone, except the troops doing the heavy lifting. Meanwhile, the speaker of the Democrat congress indulges in a three day bacchanalia festival where the featured activity is dancing through the ashes of American foreign policy.

So I’m going to start embracing…no, not defeat; I’m going to embrace the message. And I cannot think of any more appropriate recipient of the spotlight than Minnesota public schools.

Here’s my first installment…

Embrace defeat.

Time to pull out.Minneapolis, MN - At least 24 students dropped out of high school on Friday — the third worst single day for Minnesota students since the creation of a teacher’s union in 1976. That total included four 10th graders from Washburn and an 8th grader from the Afrocentric Academy on the violent north side of Minneapolis whose academic demise was announced Sunday.

Michael Croucher a Social Studies teacher at South High School who single handedly killed the futures of five seniors last week wore a suite and tie and used a vehicle commonly driven by committed, untenured first year teachers — an apparent attempt to impersonate a conscientious teaching professional, MPS officials said Sunday. Friday's carnage also included 12 10th grade students who were expelled for refusing to participate in the “Day of Silence” which is the district’s biggest yearly event.

A senior district spokeswoman said the action was taken after the students “just wouldn’t get their minds right” despite repeated and concentrated efforts by school staff and “community activists” brought in under contract to quell the students insurgency.

The radical, leftist trade union, Education Minnesota meanwhile, ended its nearly two-month political donation boycott after reaching a compromise over its demands for a timetable for it’s appointed representatives to take over the chairmanship of the House Education Committee.

"We announce our return to government, we will lead today's session, and the House members will resume their work to serve the union," EdMN President Judy Schaubach said during a news conference attended by House Speaker, Democrat Margaret Anderson Kelliher. Kelliher was joined by her trained monkey Carlos Mariani.

The decision appeared to be a way for both sides to save face while allowing EdMN’s bloc, whose support is crucial to Democrats, to regain legislative influence ahead of a planned accountability crackdown in the Twin Cities.