Where the hell were their parents? Oh wait ...
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!
In basketball, coaches cannot coach height.
In education, teachers cannot teach IQ.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
Rick Snyder is the Mayor of Detroit?
But it’s a right of government to demand you pay for crap school performance...rejoice in tyranny.
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.
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?
While I agree that literacy is not a right. Its a skill. But access to literacy is a right.
Parents are responsible for the literacy of their children, not the government.
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.
Where these people have it wrong. Is that the real problem is not whether someone has a right to education or not. Its the misplaced right to teach badly or not at all. Its the right to be in school and stop others from learning.
The parents of those kids should move out of their neighborhood.
Ah, the old “Implied Warranty of Merchantability” gambit. Good luck with that.
It’s not a right.
Could it be that as the city decayed the infrastructure also decayed?
Detroit has destroyed itself. It and the surrounding area have become a vast wasteland.
When a population demonizes education as “Too White”, then the result is illiteracy, and continued poverty. Just what the Democrats want in their plantation population.
The people in the neighborhoods with deplorable conditions have no one to blame but themselves. There is NOTHING stopping parents from going in to clean up the schools and help teach. BUT NOPE! It’s always someone else’s fault.