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About half of Detroit can't read
BoingBoing ^ | 23 March 2017 | Andrea James

Posted on 03/24/2017 10:39:29 AM PDT by Lorianne

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To: Still Thinking

“That’s retarded...”


21 posted on 03/24/2017 10:50:39 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Rick Grimes Rules.)
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To: Lorianne
Yet Detroit teachers surely average $60K/yr and retire at age 50 with a city pension of $55K/yr.Plus,of course,Social Security.
22 posted on 03/24/2017 10:51:31 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Lorianne

Apparently a number of my MBA students are from Detroit...I’ve never seen such atrocious language and writing skills above the 4th grade level.


23 posted on 03/24/2017 10:51:47 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: txrefugee

This is an issue for native ‘hoodrats as well; one problem for cities is that they offer tax breaks contingent on hiring x number of local residents, and too many of those simply have 0 job skills. Illiterate, unaccustomed to showing up for work (or anything else) at a set time...they simply have no role in this new economy, and would have been fairly useless in the old one as well.


24 posted on 03/24/2017 10:51:49 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: pepsionice

I wonder what % of swing voters are illiterate. They say that swing voters actually decide all national elections. It’s pretty amazing if true, that the dumbest 10% of voters who somehow still manage to vote actually determines political winners based on who can sway them that cycle. So no matter who wins, dem or pub, con or lib, the dumbest decided the outcome.

Freegards


25 posted on 03/24/2017 10:51:50 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Since they can’t read, maybe the Precinct Judges told them where to put their X.


26 posted on 03/24/2017 10:53:11 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Lorianne

Hard to teach low IQ people how to read.


27 posted on 03/24/2017 10:53:41 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: Lorianne

So long term plans for a permanent Democrat plantation have succeeded, it seems.


28 posted on 03/24/2017 10:55:49 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Lorianne

About half of Detroit can’t read

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The ones that can read read a map and got the hell out.


29 posted on 03/24/2017 10:57:18 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Lorianne

The other half to dumb to know it..


30 posted on 03/24/2017 11:00:23 AM PDT by Davy Crocket
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To: Lorianne

Is that why they use those strange symbols when they write on buildings?

The solution to the problem is to fire the teachers who cannot teach, also fire the teachers who cannot read and write, then fire all the administrators including the education board members. Restart the whole system. Repeat as necessary. Then start on the parent(s).


31 posted on 03/24/2017 11:01:33 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: usconservative

You’d be surprised (or maybe not) to know that quite a few VP’s of Fortune 500 Companies can’t write or spell correctly either.

Much less try to organize an excel spreadsheet.


32 posted on 03/24/2017 11:01:47 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: pepsionice
Many illiterates are illegal aliens who will never learn English. They settle in their barios and ghettos and then complain that our economy doesn’t do enough for them.

I've read where upwards of 40% of illegals are illiterate... IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE, much less English.

33 posted on 03/24/2017 11:04:05 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Lorianne

For those who think the “third world” description is hyperbole...


34 posted on 03/24/2017 11:07:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: FlingWingFlyer
"The dumbing down of America in order to keep them on the Bolshies’ plantation."

Democrats do not lift people up.

They shove the high performers down until all are equal.

Get your children out of the public schools before they are equalized.

35 posted on 03/24/2017 11:07:52 AM PDT by blam
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To: Gay State Conservative
Yet Detroit teachers surely average $60K/yr and retire at age 50 with a city pension of $55K/yr.

Yes, but they spend half of that on Kevlar


36 posted on 03/24/2017 11:08:39 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Lorianne
"About half of Detroit can't read"

The same is true for Nawlin's too.

37 posted on 03/24/2017 11:09:16 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

And Baltimore (which I affectionately call “Detroit With Crabcakes”)


38 posted on 03/24/2017 11:14:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Ransomed

I think it is a safe assumption that the illiterates are heavily weighted as Dem voters; I doubt there is any swing with them. The Dem party is built around taking from those who do and giving to those who won’t.


39 posted on 03/24/2017 11:15:51 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Lorianne

Was this a survey of city council members?


40 posted on 03/24/2017 11:16:08 AM PDT by ptsal
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