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Detroit Store Tries To Draw Kids To School With New Shoes
CBS Detroit ^ | 08/14/2012 | Christy Strawser

Posted on 08/14/2012 7:12:28 AM PDT by bt_dooftlook

Got kicks? Every Detroit student who shows up on the cash-crucial Student Count Day will be able to answer “yes” thanks to a donation from Bob’s Classic Kicks in midtown.

BCK, 4717 Woodward, made an arrangement with the school district to give away a free pair of black leather Nikes to every student who comes to class on Oct. 3, the day when students are counted and their numbers used as the basis for per-pupil funding from the state and federal government.

The more bodies in class, the more money schools have all year.

(Excerpt) Read more at detroit.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: corruption; detroit; fraud; taxpayerrape
Bribing students with new shoes to game the system for more taxpayer money.

Not buying books, or supplies, or doing anything to improve educational outcomes for students condemned to the hellhole of Detroit public schools.

Just trying to pretend the corpse that is Detroit from being recognized as dead.

Did Bernie ("Weekend at Bernie's") wear new black Nikes?

1 posted on 08/14/2012 7:12:37 AM PDT by bt_dooftlook
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To: bt_dooftlook

Sorry - s/b “Just trying to prevent the corpse that is Detroit from being recognized as dead.”


2 posted on 08/14/2012 7:13:39 AM PDT by bt_dooftlook (Democrats - the party of Amnesty, Abortion, and Adolescence)
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To: bt_dooftlook

Its not just Detroit, public schools across the country (and the cities they’re in) are zombies in various states of decay.


3 posted on 08/14/2012 7:16:03 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
Detroit giving free shoes to students who show up to be counted.

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4 posted on 08/14/2012 7:17:49 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: bt_dooftlook

Nikes aside, Oct. 3 is their first day of school? That’s six weeks after we start. It’s no wonder they have nothing better to do than drive by shootings and dealing.


5 posted on 08/14/2012 7:18:26 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bt_dooftlook

Three words: National Education Association.

Rumor has it that one of those words does not fit when in combination with the other two.

Wonder which one it could be?


6 posted on 08/14/2012 7:22:09 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: bgill
Oct. 3 is their first day of school?

No, that's just the day the Detroit schools make an official count of attending students to get state and federal education money.

It would make far more sense to have multiple days or even average over the entire year, but good sense and the Department of Education are polar opposites.

7 posted on 08/14/2012 7:23:09 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Recycled Olympic tagline Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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To: bt_dooftlook
The more bodies in class, the more money schools have all year.

And THAT is the only reason they want them there. Gotta have the largesse ever increasing for the teachers unions, parties, and whatever bullsh!t they can spend it on.

Everything EXCEPT what it is supposed to be for.

8 posted on 08/14/2012 7:25:01 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: bt_dooftlook
Detroit Store Tries To Draw Kids To School With New Shoes

What could go wrong?

9 posted on 08/14/2012 7:32:41 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: bt_dooftlook
Contrast with kids learning by the family Bible, by the light of the fireplace, in frontier America. And then read the sort of political speeches they grew up to, in the first half of the 19th Century, in contrast to the 30 second sound-bite, and realize how civilization dies.

William Flax

10 posted on 08/14/2012 7:32:41 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: bt_dooftlook
Contrast with kids learning by the family Bible, by the light of the fireplace, in frontier America. And then read the sort of political speeches they grew up to, in the first half of the 19th Century, in contrast to the 30 second sound-bite, and realize how civilization dies.

William Flax

11 posted on 08/14/2012 7:32:59 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: bt_dooftlook

And for those kids that actually WANT to learn, will find that the disruptive kids that don’t want to learn are now being bribed into coming into their classroom.


12 posted on 08/14/2012 7:45:22 AM PDT by MNDude ( Victimhood is the Holy Grail of liberalism)
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To: bt_dooftlook

Anyone with the means and or time to send their kids/grand kids to a private school or home school but instead allows them into the public school brainwashing system is contributing to the destruction of the country.

The communist teacher’s union is doing the work required in the communist manifesto and the more minds we give them the faster the complete fundamental change of the USA to a Marxist communist country will be achieved.

I certainly know not everyone has the means or time and there is not a lot that can be done about that other than charter schools but if you have the means and or time don’t contribute to the problem.


13 posted on 08/14/2012 7:50:46 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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To: bt_dooftlook

Wow! Detroit has solved the problem...guess we can move on now!!!


14 posted on 08/14/2012 8:11:07 AM PDT by ontap
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To: Ohioan

Absolutely.

Recently finished reading the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

This was farmers and workers standing around, often in hot summer sun, listening to two guys talk for a total of 3 hours, without benefit of a PA system.

Their discussions are so far beyond any political discussion of today that it is astonishing.


15 posted on 08/14/2012 8:11:27 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: bt_dooftlook

they should have required a 2 page essay on

“Why I Deserve New Shoes for Showing Up for School for One Day”


16 posted on 08/14/2012 8:14:59 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: bt_dooftlook

You can’t polish turds.


17 posted on 08/14/2012 8:15:33 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: KarlInOhio

I see I read it wrong. Still, the whole thing is wrong on so many levels.


18 posted on 08/14/2012 11:38:28 AM PDT by bgill
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