State ignores teacher licensing violations

http://www.startribune.com/local/119537854.html

I actually found this article on someone's facebook page that I went to high school with.  The article talks about my district in particular so I thought it'd be a great article to share!
Over the past few months we have been discussing the new teacher laws that were passed on being able to teach but not necessarily have gone to college for that particular subject.  Well this article goes into detail about that and ranks some of the schools on their performance of that.  There are over 900 Minnesota teachers who have violated rules in their class room.  41 teachers in my school district #622 have racked up more than 150 violations in the past 5 years.  I graduated 4 years ago in May but these violations were still very much present while I attended school.  We as students are getting punished here.  We aren't choosing for these things to happen and there isn't much we can do.  I have no problem saying that I received a crappy education from my high school.  I had to work a lot harder in college because I was not prepared and didn't know lots of the "basics" I should have already been taught.  It has been a struggle to get to the level that students are in my grade because I had to go above and beyond what everyone else has been doing.  My brother is a sophomore in high school right now and I know they have been making changes to the curriculum which has been much needed, but some of the chances aren't the best decisions.  They have FINALLY changed the math ciriculum to "normal math" algebra, geometry, trig, etc.  When I was in high school we had "integrated math."  It was very frustrating as a student because you would get little bits and pieces each year but never fully understood the concept.  Students graduating around my time (2007) were basically screwed for the ACT's and college entrance exams and first year college math.
They also changed the schedule of school from a block period (4 quarters/year, 4 classes/day) to Trimesters and 6 period days.  This creates much more homework for the student and too many things going on.  I hope that the state of Minnesota can change these violations sooner the better so that our future students get the education they deserve.