Cristine Trooien

“Just a parent” Founder and Executive Director of @MNAchievement 📚 Never bored, always free✌️❤️ 🇺🇸 *posts are my own

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

@Shannon_A_IL You were both babies then! 😍 When a baby is born, so is a mother. And you are one of the mightiest I know! That was quite a day! Celebrate it well! 🥳 💕

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

Race-based hiring decisions are unconstitutional and ineffective. Catch up, Hopkins. Tax dollars should be used to secure excellent instruction, not fill quotas.

[Mark Gilson 🌱 @markwgilson]

School: Hopkins (@Hopkins270)
When: Aug 2026
Topic: Teachers of Color, Demographics

Both Shannon Andreson (Clip 1) and Rachel Hartland (Clip 2) talk about a @Hopkins270 goal of having staffing that matches closely to the demographics of the students.

Ignoring the dubious practice of hiring teachers based on their race, this idea that you can improve student outcomes by matching their teacher's race does not bear out in reality.

I did a deep dive on a highly cited study and it was entirely subjective, read my analysis below👇

https://t.co/yEF85IKKLb

Minnesota doesn't have time to play these games.
Hire qualified teachers. Period.

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

Imagine telling a 12-year-old:

- Homer is too difficult
- Latin is unnecessary
- Memorization is outdated
- Mental math is pointless
- Handwriting doesn't matter

Then wonder why they stop pushing themselves..

YOU are capable of more.

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

Christmas has come early, get a subscription for yourself and one for a friend with good reading recommendations and swap editions! 😍 Hard copy > digital.

[Daniel Belfort ⊙ @danielbelfort]

Introducing Offprint™

The physical magazine made from everything you "save for later" but never actually go back to read.

Find online, read offline.

Print media is back!

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

America is still the home of the brave. Our shared future relies on more people who are willing to courageously follow their convictions off the easy path. Be like Matt.

[Matt Calkins @Matt_Calkins]

After 11 years as a sports columnist at the Seattle Times, I have decided to resign. It was entirely my choice, and it was not an easy one. The impetus was the Times declining to run a column I wrote from the perspective of two female student athletes who were opposed to competing against biological males. It was one of several pieces of mine that had been spiked, and I no longer felt like I could properly do my job as a columnist. I lay out the situation in greater detail in the link below, but I want to say that I enjoyed my time with the paper, find the talent there to be immense, and have no animosity toward anyone who works there. It was just time for a change.

https://t.co/NAhfUbmaPI

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

I invite anyone and everyone to go to your local branch and see for yourself. Cross check what is on the shelves with this standard list of classics for any age group and see how many you can find. https://t.co/EbV01UAShM
The library may say they have a copy in the system, but my point is that you’ll rarely see them made available for kids to encounter on their own when perusing the shelves and displays.

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

For those who haven’t visited a Hennepin County Library recently, let me save you a trip. Here is a sample of what my 11 year old encountered today. 🧵

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

Yes, the children’s section is the same. They have actively removed so many of the beautiful picture books we all remember from our childhood and replaced them with titles like this. About 3 years ago my then 5 year old found and opened this one and there are actually full frontal nude illustrations of adults with children. Books normalize children bathing with nude strangers and now years later Minneapolis is preparing to legalize bathhouses. 😳

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

@JillJohnson2222 Yes, it is a Minnesota thing - but also a publishing industry and librarian thing so you will find that (most) public and school libraries across the country are experiencing this disturbing transformation.

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

And to be clear - my issue is that young readers literally have to sift through entire shelves of these agenda-driven books, not just one or two, in order to find one anything they would actually want to read. It is 100% true that library collections have been aggressively culled. You will be pressed to find any of the timeless titles that have been on middle and high school reading lists for decades. The vast majority are brand new, published by DEI-obsessed publishers within the last 5 years. And they are all the same themes. Of course kids would rather be on a screen and their mental health is declining 💔

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

The next educational arms race won't be over who has the newest technology.

It'll be over who can produce an 18-year-old who has read 100 great books, speaks and writes beautifully, knows history, understands mathematics, can reason from first principles, and can sit with a difficult problem for three hours.

The advantage is hiding in plain sight.

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

Public libraries used to be sanctuaries for intellectual exploration, but similar to public schools, ideologues have captured and hollowed them out to be little more than taxpayer funded outposts for promoting their narrow political views. As always, the problem and solution is found in the leadership. https://t.co/OkyERi21E1

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

Nope, this is the adult section. And if you want a library card, you can choose from black, indegenous, LGBTQ, or Somalian options. They’ve actually expanded to include a few more that are not identity-based.

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

“It says teen but aren’t these for adults?”

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

“Does anyone actually check these out?”

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

“I thought these could be good, but then I read the summary and they are depressing”

[Cristine Trooien @CTrooien]

Everything that was good, wholesome, and safe in Minnesota has been destroyed by the DSA/DFL trifecta. We need to take our state back in November. This can’t continue.

[Jeremy Munson @jeremymunson]

Many people don't realize that hundreds of children from rural Minnesota live in the 4H dorms at the fair and are accompanied by only a few chaperones. These kids have always had enormous freedom to perform their chores in the barns or work in various activity centers and usually have a cafeteria pass and are on their own for meals, etc. My wife and her siblings were there for 4-5 days when they were 11 years old. Beer gardens have now been eliminated so people can carry beer and alcohol everywhere. Weed is smoked everywhere. The gang problem has escalated so far that the Attorney General is trying a Hail Mary to stop a planned Somali Gang war scheduled for Aug 29th at the fair. Metal detectors are now used to try and catch guns walking through the gates, but we used to camp there and no one checks our horse trailer for firearms and many people come and go without checking security. I carried for years, but we can no longer carry for protection. Those who don't obey the law drop guns through the fence and pick them up once inside.

Our kids grew up showing livestock. The State Fair was a family event we looked forward to every year. The State Fair is no longer a place we look forward to attending and it continues in the direction of not being welcoming to families.