[Red Badger]

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..............

[DoughtyOne]

And somehow, someway, you learned to rad. Why it’s a miracle!

LOL

That is a good story.

I’d wager these kids hadn’t opened a book outside school from K-12th grade, but are blaming the teachers for not teaching them.

[Lagmeister]

As did most folks in the 19th century, Paul Laurence Dunbar learned to read and write from the Bible. He wrote his first poem at six and gave his first public recital at nine.

Oh, his parents escaped slavery in Kentucky.

Fat chance we simply suggest printing Bibles for the Detroit school system.... I smell a money grab and/or busing to what remains of the burbs.

[a little elbow grease]

"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.............."

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Far out! Sorry for dating myself with those two words.

Back in the late 50's I used an arithmetic book with my father's name in it.

..... same arithmetic as today.