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Michigan Orders Half of Detroit's Schools Closed
Vanity - CBS News ^ | 2-21-2011 | Vanity - CBS

Posted on 02/21/2011 10:21:51 PM PST by Frantzie

I am not sure the copyright issues so I am doing this as a vanity. I guess Obama's stash is not available. I posted the link but all the content/comments are mine and I rewrote the title as it is on a variety of news sources now.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: bankruptcy; detroit; obamasstash
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To: Frantzie
90% of American have no clue or are in denial along with probably the majority of people (+50%) posting here.

I have to agree with you Frantizie, there is a huge denial gap on. It is actually quite normal for it to exist.

What happens when the oil is cut off? What happens when the IMF dumps the dollar? What happens when hyper-inflation hits?

There is no turning this around right now, the time for stopping or even slowing this is long since gone. We are to the beginning of the ...going through the collapse...

...but what is truly different in America is we have forces strongly at work to divide Americans, instead of uniting them to come out the other side a better and stronger nation. If this had happened and in some ways it did happen on 9/11, we could pull through. Ten years and the likes of elected progressives/communists in office have removed and contaminated the Spirit of America.

61 posted on 02/22/2011 4:58:47 AM PST by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: Frantzie

http://www.coachisright.com/detroit-schools-have-the-secret-to-improving-students%e2%80%99-grades-just-cheat-and-everyone-is-happy/

Read the whole sad series about Detroit there as well.


62 posted on 02/22/2011 4:59:35 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: MasterGunner01

Return half of the free blacktops and share the rest with the doubled-up classroom students.


63 posted on 02/22/2011 5:06:08 AM PST by yorkie01
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To: madison10

canadian socialist feminazi...you gotta get all the words in the description


64 posted on 02/22/2011 5:12:45 AM PST by joe fonebone (The House has oversight of the Judiciary...why are the rogue judges not being impeached?)
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To: madison10

I worked for a minority owned construction company in detroit....bid on some of the finest school buildings one can dream up or imagine...detroit schools have some of the finest buildings that money can buy.....and graduation rates up there in the high 20% range....now I wonder what is wrong there??? Bob Bobb has been the best thing to happen to detroit schools, and has been fought every step of the way by a corrupt school board and teachers union. He is leaving when his contract is up. This will be a sad day for detroit when he goes...


65 posted on 02/22/2011 5:25:50 AM PST by joe fonebone (The House has oversight of the Judiciary...why are the rogue judges not being impeached?)
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To: Frantzie

>> I think they should make more of the surrounding area farmland. <<

They ARE reintroducing farmland to city-limits Detroit. City managers are playing a real-life game of Sim City.


66 posted on 02/22/2011 5:26:53 AM PST by dangus
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To: vette6387

Actually, on a per-capita basis, California is STILL by far the worst. Only Nevada comes close.


67 posted on 02/22/2011 5:29:40 AM PST by dangus
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To: vette6387

“Do you really want to have that economic strength go into the crapper?”

Dude, Two words: Jerry Brown. Now that the Democrats are running the whole show, Denial will be the watchword in California politics.

Next question.


68 posted on 02/22/2011 5:31:21 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Frantzie; All
BAB was just a scam to funnel Federal printing press money to states that are broke. BAB and TARP was used to help states, schools and cities avoid laying off govt union workers.

Yes it was.

Frantzie, like myself I bet you have been in the Corp environment during a downsize/restructuring. It is done for a host of reasons, but it usually centers on the bottom line, making money and by extension getting the balance sheet clean.

What is interesting Obama Ran on Hope and Change, I will guess you and I wanted real hope and change, since the days of Mr. Newt, i.e. a Restructuring of Fedzilla. It didn't happen, in-fact, Obama kept the pallor game running with debt, and now the GOP House won't let him do anymore.

Tangent to this is the power of the Treasury / Federal Reserve to print willy nilly is enough to make you want to put a Ron Paul for Pres bumper sticker on, but I digress...

Back to the States, it is interesting they have to live by their Constitutions and the accounting equation and have no printing presses and being the laboratory of the Republic are doing the right thing and what people are asking them to do, be fiscally prudent.

It is amazing, folks are leading closer to home while Disneyland on the Potomac is still in denial.

Looking at what is happening at the State and local level, their is hope for the future.

I will make a bold prediction. Watch Michigan and remember this post 5 year from now. Michigan is going to stage a turnaround that will amaze people with Snyder at the helm. As my Friend's CPA wife notes about his budget blueprint in the highest compliment she a CPA can give another CPA ( Snyder ) "Gosh this guy gets the numbers". What he is doing to make the business environment business friendly was also noted by my "Auto Gnome" that will really make it friendly for small businesses. It may even get him on the VP radar screen for Sarah.

69 posted on 02/22/2011 5:44:56 AM PST by taildragger ((Palin / Mulally 2012))
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To: Frantzie

70 posted on 02/22/2011 6:13:52 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: max americana; All

71 posted on 02/22/2011 6:15:55 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

-———60 students per teacher?————

That would be the English and History classes.

The math and physics classes will not top 30 students with the new requirements because of lack of interest


72 posted on 02/22/2011 6:20:52 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: vette6387

Lastly, it would be a disaster for the country as a whole to have Zero and his bunch print money to bail out any state. And you can bet that he would have to underwrite all the states if he started down that road.


Nobama will not have any say in bailing out the states, the GOP controls the US House and they control the purse strings.

Brown might want to cozy up to Hu Jintao to sell CA state and municpal bonds to the Chicoms to continue funding the Socialist Republic of California (I fled the madness in 1993 having been raised in Orange County).


73 posted on 02/22/2011 6:23:40 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: dagogo redux

Why the heck can’t students learn with 60 or even 600 kids in a classroom? I simply don’t get it.


China has no problem educating its children. Their class sizes start around 45 students per class.


74 posted on 02/22/2011 6:25:28 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Persevero

Good Sentiment, but the kids themselves haev to WANT to learn.


75 posted on 02/22/2011 6:58:28 AM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: madison10

***Leave Michigan out of this. Detroit and Michigan are NOT synonymous. Detroit is a just a burden we’ve had to bear...***

The ghost of Chief Pontiac is smiling somewhere.


76 posted on 02/22/2011 7:18:34 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Visit the TOMMY FRANKS MILITARY MUSEUM in HOBART, OK. I did, well worth it!)
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To: madison10

Dumb down into slavery schools.


Look at the products of the Public Schools in the inner cities. Socialism, dependence on government, etc.


77 posted on 02/22/2011 8:22:22 AM PST by unkus
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To: madison10

The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.” — Author Unknown


78 posted on 02/22/2011 8:25:40 AM PST by unkus
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To: dagogo redux
The reduction in class sizes was not for the students, nor the parents.

It was the brainchild of the unions, thus ensuring the need for more and more teacher's jobs being needed.

Nice scam, actually, fooled many, still does.

79 posted on 02/22/2011 8:33:59 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Frantzie

The Detroit News says the financial restructuring plan will increase high school class sizes to 60 students and consolidate operations.
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How is it that college freshmen routinely attend large lecture classes of 100 or more students, but 3 months earlier their government teachers insisted on classes of 20 or less?


80 posted on 02/22/2011 9:17:39 AM PST by wintertime
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