[cripplecreek]

I suspect that my rural public school was closer to 98% back in the early 80s.



Weekly/biweekly Michigan legislative activism thread December 7, 2012

Michigan Action Alert on Right To Work

[cripplecreek]

I suspect that my rural public school was closer to 98% back in the early 80s.



Weekly/biweekly Michigan legislative activism thread December 7, 2012

Michigan Action Alert on Right To Work

[knarf]

THAT'S how you get people to do as they're told ... it's impossible for them to learn otherwise.

True daddy gummint ... "'Cause I SAID so, boy !!"

[cripplecreek]

LOL Gotta love this. This just came from a twitter report from the protests in Lansing.

[andy58-in-nh]

You don’t have to read to be able to swipe an EBT card.

[wesagain]

As usual when the kids are failing.......”look for the union label”.....

[FrankR]

[TurboZamboni]

Just remember, no gubmint program is EVER a failure, it’s just ‘underfunded’.

[uncommonsense]

"Statewide in Michigan, only 32 percent of public-school eighth graders scored grade-level proficient or better in reading, and only 31 percent scored grade-level proficient or better in math"

Time to lower the standards.

[DoughtyOne]

the Left: Goal achieved...

[ZULU]

They don’t have to read. Obama will tell them everything they need to know on his website. (NOT sarcasm)

[Hotlanta Mike]

A lot of proud parents there in Detroit to be sure...

[blueunicorn6]

The Republicans need to quit holding press conferences in Washington, D.C. and start holding them in Detroit.

[theBuckwheat]

Let us be generous and speculate that these schools only cost $10,000 per pupil per year not including prorated capital costs. A student in the 8th grade would have cost the taxpayers $80,000. But it costs $80.000/0.07 = 1.14 MILLION DOLLARS for the district to produce a SINGLE CHILD who is proficient at his grade level in reading.

At what level will we allow that the model of having government educate our children is dangerously broken? The only way out is to allow competition in education where the parents are free to send their child to any school they please.

[nascarnation]

The Great Society has reached completion.

Unionized teachers are a problem, but 80% illegitimacy is the fundamental problem.

Even in a moderately upscale suburb where my daughter teaches - her 3rd grade class only has 42% “intact” families with the child living in the home with both birth parents.

[metmom]

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