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State of Michigan tells Detroit students 'Literacy is not a right'
Fox 2 Detroit ^ | 11/21/16 | M. L. Elrick

Posted on 11/22/2016 9:15:30 AM PST by Libloather

Attorneys for Michigan Governor Rick Snyder are asking a judge to toss out a lawsuit against the state of Michigan filed by students in the Detroit school system and claim that literacy is not a legal right in the state of Michigan.

Seven children filed the lawsuit in September, saying decades of state disinvestment and deliberate indifference to Detroit's schools have denied them access to literacy.

The plaintiffs say the schools have deplorable building conditions, lack of books, classrooms without teachers, insufficient desks, buildings plagued by vermin, unsafe facilities and extreme temperatures.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox2detroit.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: detroit; education; literacy; michigan; students
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Let it be known that I never, not once, ever called any of my leftist teachers 'vermin'.
1 posted on 11/22/2016 9:15:30 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

The government can force you to pay for government schools.
The government can force you to attend government schools, up to a certain age.

But the government doesn’t actually have to provide anything of value to you while you attend the government school.

Sweet deal!


2 posted on 11/22/2016 9:18:55 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: Libloather

In basketball, coaches cannot coach height.

In education, teachers cannot teach IQ.


3 posted on 11/22/2016 9:20:20 AM PST by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: Libloather

I know nothing about this case, but I am suspicious.

State by state, the education lobby is using the courts to increase school funding.

In my state, Kansas, it has reached the level of absurd. The legislature will pass a school funding bill, and in less than a week, the state supreme court will have rejected it, with instructions to try again. The courts have usurped legislative authority, and it is accepted as normal.


4 posted on 11/22/2016 9:20:35 AM PST by lacrew
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To: Libloather
Liberals fighting liberals and students protesting the very conditions they, themselves, helped create.

Bring back fundamental education. Reinstate corporal punishment. Allow administrators to expel however many students necessary. 90% of those students are black? Too bad. So sad.

Put "education" back into education.

5 posted on 11/22/2016 9:21:15 AM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: Libloather
How sad - I learned the ABCs and how to read in school, but I participated in the process and my parents did too. My granddaughters read several years above their grade level because my daughter spent hours reading to them and supplementing the school work.

Students that don't learn how to read and write are either lazy, have crap for parents or a combination of both. We have the right to an opportunity to become literate - no law/lawsuit can guarantee that we take advantage of it.

6 posted on 11/22/2016 9:21:17 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Libloather

“The plaintiffs say the schools have deplorable building conditions, lack of books, classrooms without teachers, insufficient desks, buildings plagued by vermin, unsafe facilities and extreme temperatures.’


Close them. Replace with School choice vouchers.


7 posted on 11/22/2016 9:23:23 AM PST by marktwain
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To: Libloather
Detroit's schools have denied them access to literacy.
Where the hell were their parents? Oh wait ...
8 posted on 11/22/2016 9:24:21 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Libloather

Rick Snyder is the Mayor of Detroit?


9 posted on 11/22/2016 9:25:21 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy is the backup QB to a dictatorship)
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To: trebb

Indeed, parents are chulrun’s primary educators.


10 posted on 11/22/2016 9:25:24 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Libloather

But it’s a right of government to demand you pay for crap school performance...rejoice in tyranny.


11 posted on 11/22/2016 9:25:30 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Libloather

Detroit should have taken books, computers, etc from the abandoned schools for other schools but that would have been common sense. It made me sick to see rooms filled with books and other things left to the elements. I have loved to read since I learned how way back in 1950. Just my $.02.


12 posted on 11/22/2016 9:25:42 AM PST by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: Libloather

Doesn’t the state of Michigan have better things to do? Like counting the remaining 1/2 of 1% of the votes from 2 weeks ago?


13 posted on 11/22/2016 9:26:00 AM PST by RonnG
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To: Libloather

While I agree that literacy is not a right. Its a skill. But access to literacy is a right.


14 posted on 11/22/2016 9:27:14 AM PST by poinq
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To: House Atreides

No, they can’t teach IQ, but they can teach phonics. That they refuse to is the reason these kids are illiterate.


15 posted on 11/22/2016 9:31:40 AM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Libloather

Parents are responsible for the literacy of their children, not the government.


16 posted on 11/22/2016 9:32:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Libloather

Well, it isn’t a right. It’s an attribute that must be acquired through study.

In fact, one should have acquired the basics of literacy before they even enter the public school system. If they have not, the failure lies with the parents or legal guardians. A school can only compensate for such deficiencies to a certain degree.


17 posted on 11/22/2016 9:33:02 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Libloather
Literacy is a privilege, that is earned. You have to study hard to become Literate.
18 posted on 11/22/2016 9:36:05 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: House Atreides

>>In education, teachers cannot teach IQ.

Reading at an 8th grade level at age 18 does not require a 3 digit IQ. But it does take some work. That’s the problem. Teachers won’t work. Students won’t work. Everybody expects someone else to work and provide.


19 posted on 11/22/2016 9:37:20 AM PST by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: poinq

“But access to literacy is a right.”

What does that even mean, “access to literacy is a right”? Literacy is not some building that we are barring the doors to.


20 posted on 11/22/2016 9:38:38 AM PST by Boogieman
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