Posted on 11/01/2019 8:25:23 AM PDT by grundle
Helen Moore of Detroit leads a group of protesters outside the federal courthouse in Cincinnati last Thursday.
"Every school in the country would be affected," one expert said. "There could be a lot of litigation."
After two years of struggling to pass any of his community college classes, Jamarria Hall, 19, knows this for certain: His high school did not prepare him.
The four years he spent at Detroit’s Osborn High School were “a big waste of time,” he said, recalling 11th and 12th grade English classes where students were taught from materials labeled for third or fourth graders, and where long-term substitutes showed movies instead of teaching.
What’s less certain, however, is whether Hall's education in Detroit’s long-troubled school district was so awful, so insufficient, that it violated his constitutional rights.
That’s the question now before a federal appeals court that heard arguments last week in one of two cases that experts say could have sweeping implications for schools across the country.
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I thought this had already been litigated, resulting in a finding that schools are never legally responsible for individual student outcomes.
Democrats do not want genuine education to thrive in minority neighborhoods.
I’ve read through the U.S. Constitution for years, and I still can’t find a constitutional right to a free education anywhere.
Can black students sue their peers for harassing them when they study saying “quit actin’ white”?
But then, if too many students are held back/fail, then that’s racist. If there are too many black students in trouble/with discipline problems, then that’s racist.
Schools are between a rock and a hard place on this issue. Upgrading standards which cause students to flunk a grade or cause more to dropout, will be deemed racist.
Should be at the state level.
With judges ruling on things like this, why do we need legislatures anymore?
I know this for certain. "Jamarria" blew his chance to pull his own black arse out of the toilet, and he ain't ever going to do it now.
Actually I applaud Jamarria, government schools and the libs that run them need to be held accountable and that is exactly what Jamarria is trying to do.
An uneducated voter is a good Democrat voter.
Intelligence makes slaves question their masters. The Democrat elite do NOT want that.
He’s filing a Federal lawsuit. The U.S. Department of Education has almost no control over the zoo where this nitwit was allegedly “educated.”
“I’ve read through the U.S. Constitution for years, and I still can’t find a constitutional right to a free education anywhere.”
No, but the founders certainly believed in a literate society. The hallmark of the political left is to have people that are controllable. The easiest way to do this is to have serfs who can’t think or reason but believe they can. The easiest way to do that is to give a false education.
So, while a strictly constitutional issue it is relevant to the government and the society at large has a clear and abiding interest in making sure that citizens are educated.
Having said that - I believe that public schools are child abuse. All public schools. Even the so-called “Good ones”
Students entering kindergarten should speak English.
I would agree that litigation has occurred before. But in this case...the ‘kid’ reached some level of reality in realizing in the second year of community college that he wasn’t nowhere near prepared for what they were teaching.
No one says his level, but I would almost imagine that he’s basically at the 7th-to-8th grade level. He would need tutoring going on for a full-year to prepare for community college. No one is going to do that for ‘free’.
I had an associate I worked with around 2010. His son had finished up high school and the university had a math test requirement before entry. The kid then got a note after the test...he’d have to take a pre-college math class (in the $600 range) in that first semester. It counted for nothing toward a degree. His dad mounted a serious challenge on this, and they demonstrated that the kid wasn’t mathematically ready for college material.
That’s correct. This problem can’t be solved in the courts, only by elections or armed revolts.
If rats are FORCED by their buddies in black robes to actually educate students where will they get the money that will cost them? It will come from their vote buying slush funds. This is why this is so dangerous to Democrats.
The Constitution is an amazing document but not everyone has learned how to read it correctly. Remember how the map in LoTR had runes that could only be seen in moonlight? The Constitution is similar but to find many of the newer rights you have to hold it over a toilet and peer around the edge into the penumbras.
Public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century. It’s two primary functions are a jobs program for government employees and supplying free daycare to parents that have sold themselves into indentured slavery.
The U.S. Department of Education should not exist. Education is a state and local issue with which the FedGov should not be involved.
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