Does it really matter anymore whether high school or college graduates can read or write? Look how far Obama has gone without a basic understanding of physics, economics, meteorology, demographics, constitutional law and a host of other subjects.
Illiteracy might be the new normal.
I’m actually OK with online schooling but as usual the private sector does it better. Where public schools try it it becomes little more than a shortcut to collect taxpayer money without the responsibility.
Illiteracy is the old “normal,” still hanging around while we pretend things are otherwise. I was talking with a church friend about prison ministry yesterday, and he mentioned how often inmates tell him, “I can’t read.”
I won't go into detailed particulars because you can Google them.
He resigned and faced criminal charges because he fondled himself whenever he met with Detroit School Superintendent Teresa Gueyse. Even given the lewdness of that action, Mathis crossed the line one day in 2010. Again, Google it.
Mathis resigned, then requested reinstatement to his position.
One board member, the Rev. David Murray, was in favor of the 55-year-old Mathis' reinstatement, saying:
“He’s a young man; maybe he didn’t know it was offensive to her. It’s not something I would do. He’s a young man. That’s just the way it is.”
I kid you not.
A local city councilor recently took offense at an article published in our local news and fishwrap, and wrote a "Letter to the Editor" taking the paper to task.
The paper published it as an op-ed, with a note from the editor explaining that it was published as written, completely unedited, and that the editor had verified its contents with the author. This was a good thing, because frankly, the letter was unreadable. It read like a child's short story....which is fine at age 7, but not so much as an adult, and furthermore, a representative of the people.
The City Councilor was thoroughly taken to task by the public, and the media, and ultimately lost her job in the next election. Rightfully so. She was corrupt, as well as illiterate. Good riddance.
That's not the punchline, though. The issue became a real tempest in a teapot.....since the City Councilor was (gasp) Black. Obviously, the paper was racist for publishing her (unspun, unedited, un-improved upon) thoughts. Obviously the paper wanted to make black people look bad. Sez me, this person was doing a pretty good job of that herself, and the paper merely provided an outlet.
Letter written by the President of the Detroit School Board:
Good Evening,
If you saw Sunday’s Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason’s he gave for closing school to many empty seats.
Based on the Free Press Map where it shows that the most of children who live in 48217 is near Gleason by the former Mark Twain. Why did Bobb think the larger numbers of our children would cross Fort St. to attend the Boynton school site calling it Mark Twain, make’s no sense unless the plan is to destroy the public schools that’s remained in our neighborhood. ….. When Bobb moved Mark Twain to Boynton, 48217 lose about 200 hundred students some of the student attended Mark Twain on Gleason came from out side the city of Detroit.
He has a learning disability and took 15 years to graduate from college.
That sounds like a joke, right?