Posted on 12/11/2012 9:16:00 AM PST by Hojczyk
In the public schools in Detroit, Mich., according to the U.S. Department of Education, only 7 percent of the eighth graders are grade-level proficient or better in reading.
Some public school teachers in the City of Detroit and around the state of Michigan are reportedly taking a vacation or a sick day today to protest right-to-work legislation likely to be approved by the state legislature. Under current law, Michigan public school teachers must pay dues to the teachers’ union. If the right-to-work law is enacted, Michigan public-school teachers will be free to join the union and pay dues to it if they wish, but they will also be free not to join the union and not to pay it dues.
Detroit public-school eighth graders do even worse in math than they do in reading, according to the Department of Education. While only 7 percent scored highly enough on the department’s National Assessment of Educational Progress test in 2011 to be rated “proficient” or better in reading, only 4 percent scored highly enough to be rated “proficient” or better in math.
Statewide in Michigan, only 32 percent of public-school eighth graders scored grade-level proficient or better in reading, and only 31 percent scored grade-level proficient or better in math.
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It’ll never change until those proud parents are also held accountable.
That was my point. Look at Asian immigrants and their kids excelling at school. Most of their parents didn’t have the advantage of being able to speak English fluently, but yet their kids were pushed to learn.
It’s all about accountability, and progressives are very good at making people not be accountable.
The Republicans need to quit holding press conferences in Washington, D.C. and start holding them in Detroit.
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Let us be generous and speculate that these schools only cost $10,000 per pupil per year not including prorated capital costs. A student in the 8th grade would have cost the taxpayers $80,000. But it costs $80.000/0.07 = 1.14 MILLION DOLLARS for the district to produce a SINGLE CHILD who is proficient at his grade level in reading.
At what level will we allow that the model of having government educate our children is dangerously broken? The only way out is to allow competition in education where the parents are free to send their child to any school they please.
The Great Society has reached completion.
Unionized teachers are a problem, but 80% illegitimacy is the fundamental problem.
Even in a moderately upscale suburb where my daughter teaches - her 3rd grade class only has 42% “intact” families with the child living in the home with both birth parents.
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Public schools are beyond defensible. Get your kids out while you still have the chance and there's still hope for them.
That’s what passes for literacy these days.
The bad thing is, WE will soon be considered “illiterate” if we don’t understand and write that way.
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