When the news that 63 guards at a facility for sex offenders came out, news organizations around Minnesota piled on. Fourty-five separate news sources covered the story. Reporters from the Associated Press got quotes from from several lawmakers and the headlines became: “Security hospital layoffs worry lawmakers.” The fact that the layoffs were at a facility for sex offenders helped the news of the firings to become mainstream.

The layoff outcry is well meaning (I guess), but where was the concern/outrage/investigation when twenty-seven administrators and teachers were laid off from a Minnesota school district? That happened two weeks ago, and since then the story has only appeared in one tiny news source.

If sex maniacs start breaking out from the security hospital, I’ll take this back, but until then it would be nice for newspapers and politicians would at least pretend to care about education.