Posted on 03/10/2010 6:11:17 AM PST by jmaroneps37
This has got to be child abuse. A special education student running the schools?
Detriot school board president Otis Mathis can’t write in English. The man charged with educating the last 90,000 school kids left in the disappearing city can’t express himself in a simple Email.
Need proof?
Grab a red pencil and read this recent Email written by Mr. Mathis. “If you saw Sunday’s Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason’s he gave for closing school to many empty seats.”
His acknowledgement of difficulty composing a clearly written English paragraph is an understatement.
“[H]is communication issues.”
Mathis who was placed in a special education program in the fourth grade is a great example of Detroit’s refusal to recognize reality. Last January he was elected president of the school board by a margin of 10 to 1 over a University of Michigan academic officer.
That his graduation from Wayne State University was held up for TEN years because he couldn’t pass the required English proficiency test and had a 1.8 gpa in high school meant nothing. Mathis shouldn’t be able to teach third grade classes, let alone become the president of an entire school system. This outrage wouldn’t be tolerated anywhere else in America.
Damned either way
His colleagues call Mathis a good guy whose leadership skills are more important than his lack of qualifications. Nevertheless, herein lays the problem of trying to fix the Detroit school system. Anyone bright enough to be able to do the job is too bright to take the job.
Since somebody – anybody- must be in the slot, for Detroit a former special education student will do.
(Excerpt) Read more at collinsreport.net ...
Coach needs to check his spelling before posting a missive against someone who cannot write properly.
In a socialist utopia, all students would leave school with an IQ of exactly 100.
He just has to know Ebonics for Detroit, not English.
I don’t think Detroit is going to be turned around, the people will keep voting for the idiots.
Well ... send them some money ... and call me when the problems are fixed.
Happening now in KCMO. Sad - once great cities going down the tubes.
They’re just not spending enough money in Detroit. Saw a poll a few days ago that had majority of Americans saying we don’t spend enough on education. Obviously the product of the government education system.
That paragraph could have been written by any number of people on any number of the boards I frequent, including this one. But I would hope a school superintendent of a major city might be able to do a little better.
"Coach needs to check his spelling before posting a missive against someone who cannot write properly."
What's wrong with his spelling? I didn't see anything wrong with that sentence.
Or head of the school board, as the case may be.
The movie “Ideocracy” was too optimistic.
Let’s put Brawndo in da school fountins. It gots elextrolites. Its what you body needs.
>> A special education student running the schools?
Is it OK to call him a “retard”?
OTOH. I could tell what Coach was getting at and he is not trying to be a superintendant over 90K students.
That always seems to happen, doesn't it?
Give everybody a gold star and a trophy because when there are no winnners or losers we all lose. And nothing says success like a nation full of losers who have been made to feel good about themselves.
This is hilarious.
It’s like something out of an Evelyn Waugh novel.
I don’t know, most of the U of M graduates I have met would probably lose out to a Special Ed candidate.
Look no further than the first word.
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