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Michigan judge rules kids don't have a fundamental right to literacy
MSN ^ | 7/02/18 | Aris Folley

Posted on 07/03/2018 2:30:34 AM PDT by Libloather

A Michigan judge ruled last week that children do not have a fundamental right to learn how to read and write.

The ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by Public Counsel, the nation's largest public interest law firm, on behalf of Detroit students that sought to hold state authorities, including Gov. Rick Snyder (R), accountable for what plaintiffs alleged were systemic failures depriving children of their right to literacy, according to the Detroit Free Press.

"I'm shocked," said Ivy Bailey, president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, the newspaper reported. "The message that it sends is that education is not important. And it sends the message that we don't care if you're literate or not."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: education; kids; literacy; michigan; publicschools; right
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To: wetgundog
Blame in on the MEA, NEA, and “I could care less about my spawn” Parent. No Fathers around, just jizz donors.

Add in the whole BLM attitude. "Acting white" will get a kid ostracized at best and usually beaten to a pulp in the inner city.

The one who do get some education move out and up, leaving the mess behind. A self-perpetuating mass of ignorance and crime.

81 posted on 07/03/2018 7:55:45 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Personally my mother made me literate, several years before I ever saw the inside of a classroom.”

Same with me. Dr. Sowell had my ‘eyes wide open’ as to what would happen to my kids in public school, so never happened for my kids. I taught them, math and reading, and early.


82 posted on 07/03/2018 8:01:41 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: Libloather

Literacy, along with all forms of education, takes effort. Those that can/win do so by effort. Those that can’t/lose, are lazy.


83 posted on 07/03/2018 8:02:45 AM PDT by Mr. Mohasky (Common sense in a world lacking any, will be perceived and construed as an extreme point of view.)
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To: Sa-teef
Very sensible. There is NO EXCUSE to not having books in the house. If they don't have yard sales in your neighborhood, ask around.

Many bookstores will donate surplus books to good causes. They often just have to rip off the front cover and return it to the vendor for credit to prove they didn't sell it.

Others will sell in bulk to surplus outlets like Ollie's where great books can be had for literally pennies on the dollar.

Kids will drive parents crazy asking them to read certain favorite books over and over and over again. Then one day you will see your grandchildren doing the same thing to YOUR kids and you'll just sit back, smile and enjoy it!

84 posted on 07/03/2018 8:09:02 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Libloather

Somehow an old article by Charlie Reese, years ago came to mind... A takeoff on the 2nd Amendment.

“’A well educated elite, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to become educated shall not be infringed’-does not mean only the elite are allowed to be educated.”

Well, now it is.


85 posted on 07/03/2018 8:18:47 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Daffynition
Just like Busing in Kansas City Mo. The Judge Made the citizens spend 1 Billion dollars on busing to increase the test scores of inner city schools with property tax dollars. No noticeable increase and now the kids want segregated student unions and dorms.
86 posted on 07/03/2018 9:45:06 AM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: Dr. Pritchett

Unfortunately it is on Washington state constitution. The judges ruled the state pony up an additional $32 BILLION for the K-12 public schools.


87 posted on 07/03/2018 9:50:46 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Vigilanteman
"......Kids will drive parents crazy asking them to read certain favorite books over and over and over again. Then one day you will see your grandchildren doing the same thing to YOUR kids and you'll just sit back, smile and enjoy it!"

hahaha.... I'm old but I still remember that! And you know they are faking it when they are saying it out loud word for word but turning the pages at the wrong time! Hehehe.

When they do start reading you will get the constant,

"what's this word dad?"

I'm not sure there was ever a conscious effort to teach them to read at a young age; if you are reading to them every day from a young age they just seem to pick it up and start asking questions? And then one day they are opening up new books you just brought home and they are actually reading them!

One of the many joys of being a parent.

88 posted on 07/03/2018 10:47:00 AM PDT by Sa-teef
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To: frank ballenger

The Founding Fathers fought against “taxation without representation”, and were just as opposed to “representation without taxation” - only taxpayers (landowners at the time, before income or sales taxes) could vote when this country was founded, and with good reason.


89 posted on 07/04/2018 2:22:40 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: ExTxMarine

The primary means to keep the government in check, in the eyes of the Founding Fathers, was to restrict voting to taxpayers. With that model, government could only serve those who funded it; non-contributing parasites couldn’t vote themselves shares of the producers’ wealth.


90 posted on 07/04/2018 2:24:38 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

You are right. I didn’t mean to word it otherwise.


91 posted on 07/04/2018 8:15:11 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: BobL; skr
“School isn’t the only place one can become literate.”

More like “School alone is the one place one cannot become literate.” I doubt a SINGLE KID now learns to read exclusively in a public school, there is ALWAYS outside help to teach him the RIGHT WAY to read.

I entered primary school in 1968. There were a dozen or so kids from that kindergarten class who graduated high school together in the spring of 1981.

Those of us who had been taught basic reading skills at home, before we started our formal schooling, were all able to succeed based on our own level of motivation.

The handful that started kindergarten with no ability to read were behind from the beginning, and they were behind at the end.

92 posted on 07/05/2018 8:47:49 AM PDT by Augie
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To: Augie

“The handful that started kindergarten with no ability to read were behind from the beginning, and they were behind at the end. “

Yep, and do not, for a minute, think it’s not intentional. They now use ‘Sight Words’ though 3rd grade to teach ‘reading’. Pretty much no different than Whole Language, and with exactly the same results...nothing learned.

Then, in 4th grade, those kids who were not lucky enough to be taught separately from the schools finally start on Phonics. Once can only imagine where their lives will go.

The fact that they do, eventually, go to Phonics is their admission that Phonics actually does work, and the fact that they delay its use for years, when they know it works on kids at least as young as 3 years old, is evidence that what they’re doing is intentional.


93 posted on 07/05/2018 8:59:46 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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