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Posted on 07/06/2018 12:03:22 PM PDT by Red Badger
A federal judge has concluded that the Constitution doesn't require schools to promote students’ literacy.
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What to do when a school is infested with vermin, when textbooks are outdated, when students can’t even read? Perhaps the answer is sue the government.
That’s what seven students in Detroit have done. Their class-action suit filed against the state of Michigan asserts that education is a basic right, and that they have been denied it.
Usually, such education-equity cases wend their way through state courts, as all 50 state constitutions mandate public-education systems, while the country’s guiding document doesn’t even include the word education. But this case, Gary B. v. Snyder, was filed in federal court, and thus seeks to invoke the Constitution. And as of this week, it’s headed to the federal appeals court in Cincinnati.
The lawyers filing the suit—from the pro bono Los Angeles firm Public Counsel—contend that the students (who attend five of Detroit’s lowest-performing schools) are receiving an education so inferior and underfunded that it’s as if they’re not attending school at all. The 100-page-plus complaint alleges that the state of Michigan (which has overseen Detroit’s public schools for nearly two decades) is depriving these children—97 percent of whom are students of color—of their constitutional rights to liberty and nondiscrimination by denying them access to basic literacy. Almost all the students at these schools perform well below grade level in reading and writing, and, the suit argues, those skills are necessary to function properly in society. It’s the first case to argue that the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to become literate (and thus to be educated) because other rights in the Constitution necessarily require the ability to read.
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Unfortunately, in many schools, the vermin are the students, teachers, and administrators.
It is awful that so many inner city school systems produce such poor results.
But then you have to discuss issues such as a culture which derides doing well in school as acting white, issues such as teachers not being ng sbek to teach because they are overwhelmed with discipline problems in such schools, etc.
Sue the parents. Urban troubles all originate in the home, what is left of it.
Wrong.
They have a basic right to pursue literacy, not have it.
There is nothing in the constitution that requires public education at all.
Trump’s fault.
What are they upset about? The teachers are doing well financially, that’s what matters most obviously.
Let me get this straight. They weren’t taught to read but they learned how to sue the government for not teaching them to read?
Might there be some lawyers using these illiterate stooges to enrich themselves?
Finally.
...when textbooks are outdated,...
Funny, when those books were new people were learning to read with them.
While I do buy in on a certain level, when folks talk about schools that aren’t provided the new materials others are, there’s only so much I’ll buy off on.
Nobody can teach a kid that really doesn’t give a darn if they can read or not.
After years of people trying to teach them, now they think they can cash in off their own refusal. Bad luck with that.
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How could anyone slander the NEA so maliciously! (sarc)
When I went to school, early 60’s, the textbooks had been in use for decades. They still had our PARENTS’ NAMES in them from when they went to the same school..............
Well, that's definitely the problem!
Blame the parents. I had my little girl knowing the alphabet and reading simple words, her 1-2-3’s before she entered kindergarten. We read and played word games every night. It starts at home.
Looks like he’s Boxed in................
Well, at least they learned how to sue.
Heck, we’ve got:
“The Derek Zoolander School for Kids Who Can’t Read Good”
What else do they want?
Hasn’t Detroit been run by Dimocrats since 1962? Sue them.
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