Posted on 07/13/2012 6:51:55 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
In the first case of its kind, the American Civil Liberties Union is charging that the state of Michigan and a Detroit area school district have failed to adequately educate children, violating their “right to learn to read” under an obscure state law.
The ACLU class-action lawsuit, to be filed Thursday, says hundreds of students in the Highland Park School District are functionally illiterate.
“None of those adults charged with the care of these children . . . have done their jobs,” said Kary L. Moss, executive director of the ACLU of Michigan. “The Highland Park School District is among the lowest-performing districts in the nation, graduating class after class of children who are not literate. Our lawsuit . . . says that if education is to mean anything, it means that children have a right to learn to read.”
The complaint, to be filed in state court in Wayne County, is based on a 1993 state law that says if public school students are not proficient in reading, as determined by tests given in grades 4 and 7, they must be provided “special assistance” to bring them to grade level within a year.
But at Highland Park, a three-school district bordering Detroit, most of the struggling students are years behind grade level and never received the kind of assistance required by law, the ACLU said.
Sara Wurfel, press secretary for Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R), said it was “impossible and imprudent to comment on a lawsuit that we haven’t been served or read yet.”
But she said the administration is working to address “a long overdue fiscal and academic crisis that was crippling the district, shortchanging its students and threatening the schools’ very existence...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Kids can’t be disciplined thanks to the ACLU types. What did they expect.
I'm right, aren't I?
Take it out of the union.
Right to learn to read is not the same as right to read. They had the right, but simply did not take advantage of it.
My kids knew how to read a long time before they were subjected to government schools.
I’m sure the kids have great self-esteem
The children and especially minorities are special snowflakes, they aren’t human beings, don’t you know, they are above the law as well, they are just misunderstood, they are above discipline, punishment, it’s racist. So, if your skin is a darker shade, the next time you get pulled over for speeding, drug use, or an any criminality of any kind, just call them racists, for they are violating your civil rights, it’s the Socialist, Democratic way!
It’s come to whatever answer is given, even wrong, they’re right. “You get an ‘A’ Johnny because even though your answer is wrong at least you tried”
Well hell yeah ya short changed us on the money an' we gots t'get more or ..
shrug
y'know ?
The ethnic & racial backgrounds of the chilluns in question is?
Remember that the ACLU isn’t a monolithic organization, but run by individual chapters, often with differing agendas. ACLU chapters have defended the right of Christian street preachers, and even a girl who used her space in her high school yearbook to say something Christian. Whoever is in charge of this ACLU chapter apparently doesn’t mind pissing off unions and Democrat politicians by going after deadbeat school administrators and teachers.
Let’s see here........you cannot hold a child back anymore, social promotion. Why do the parents care if their kids can read? They won’t sign to hold the kids back so it is the parent’s fault, not the teacher or school.
Let’s see here........you cannot hold a child back anymore, social promotion. Why do the parents care if their kids can read? They won’t sign to hold the kids back so it is the parent’s fault, not the teacher or school.
1. Can they operate a cel phone?
2. Can they text?
3. Are they calling for more money for ‘education’?
Whoa, you mean those union teachers were violating those innocents right to read. Fire the whole bunch of them immediately!!!!!!
can all the teachers read?
The State should call their bluff and close down Highland Park schools and give the kids vouchers to go wherever they want to go.
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