Posted on 01/01/2009 8:10:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
You really think the problem is the teachers?
Those text books may actually have some educational value, being devoid of all the social engineering crapola that is fed to kids these days.
This was already posted, but it’s an important piece.
The pit bull story from later on in the article is one of those things that you can read but not un-read, even though you wish you could.
No, he wasn’t murdered - which is against the odds for Detroit - I do know that. I never really learned the actual cause of death, but it is my guess that it was a heart attack brought on by the fact that he was kind of living on borrowed time and in need of a liver transplant. He was going to “live” whatever time he had. By the time his body was returned to Nashville for the funeral, he was the deadest-looking dead person I’ve ever seen. But, hell, what he would have said is, “As long as I’m dead, why try to look like I’m not?”
I’m praying that 4 years(or less)is as long as we have to suffer that fool.I predict Obama’s popularity will tank down to Bush’s level in less than a year.There’s a lot of dirt on him that could ultimately lead to his removal from office too.
Just Wow! What an amazing article.
“You really think the problem is the teachers?”
I believe the teachers statement was within the quote taken from 2banana. My comment was on the text books.
However, I would very quickly add that many teachers and teachers unions play a major part in the dumbing down of our schools, and turning schools into liberal indoctrination centers. The government, of course, benefits from and thus encourages this, and does everything it can to support teachers unions. Society, generally, plays an even bigger role in that it buys liberalism as a way of life. Detroit is merely the distilled version of everything that is wrong with liberalism. Big government benefits from decay and thus fosters it where ever it goes. Teachers unions are a tool of big government. Many teachers enjoy being part of that tool. Most, probably, don’t, but they are caught between a rock and a hard place in the middle of it all.
How’s that?
If ALL the productive people finally leave then the criminal class will be reduced to stealing each other’s government checks and benefits.How long could that possibly last?
I’ll never make another crack about Buffalo
It gets my vote for quote of the day.
In the novel “WarDay,” the main characters visit New York City, which has been evacuated after mistargeted missiles destoyed two boroughs and contaminated the rest of the city. They are assigned a government minder who is supposed to show them the ongoing efforts to salvage basic materials like copper wire and such. One of the characters wonders if the Romans also had smart, young professionals whose job was to oversee the demise of their cities.
I thought about that moment as I read this.
This article sounds like a travel brochure for tourists traveling to Mogadishu, Somalia.
“Those text books may actually have some educational value, being devoid of all the social engineering crapola that is fed to kids these days.”
Exactly. What’s left of them, anyway.
Four years of this stuff coming up!
Cut to the chase the “Bell Curve” is true.
Lengthy, but good read. No solutions offered, but great description of the dying city.
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