Posted on 09/18/2016 10:15:07 PM PDT by kevcol
"It doesn’t even feel like school," said Hall, a senior at Osborn Evergreen Academy of Design and Alternative Energy. "It makes my stomach hurt just walking into the facility, knowing we're basically getting cheated – really, getting robbed – of education."
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The 133-page complaint says the state of Michigan has disinvested in education in Detroit so much that children lack fundamental access to literacy.
Hall, 16, said he has friends who can't read "but it's not because they aren't smart, it's because the state has failed them".
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“Osborn Evergreen Academy of Design and Alternative Energy”?
Since they got rid of phonics, I agree. The kids aren’t even taught the skills to sound out words anymore. It’s an atrocity.
Literacy starts at home , not at school.
It’s governemnt’s fault I can’t read!!!
Or spel . . . .G O V E R N M E N T
That’s right! Thanks to mother, I could read anything you handed me when I was 3 years old. Yay!
Their problems started out a long time ago—no home work, no reading, writing, and arithmetic. Gimmicks are no substitute. The teachers failed, their union failed, the administration failed, and, ultimately, the parents failed. Sue themselves.
[[Since they got rid of phonics, I agree. The kids aren’t even taught the skills to sound out words anymore. It’s an atrocity.]]
True but parents also do not bother to teach their children.
At two my daughter was playing phonics games on the computer next to me . I did not wait for her to start “learning” to read in kindergarten . She already knew how to read , add and subtract and count her lunch money before her first day of school.
Design (find excuses and blame) and Alternative Energy (Whine).
There are plenty of free apps on the internet that teach children to read and that can be used by adults, too. Additionally, all public libraries have books and reading programs. All it takes is a little effort. A Constitutional amendment won’t magically make it easier.
The children of Vietnamese refugees in San Diego had an after school regimen of homework at the kitchen table. The kids enjoyed a stunning academic success. My sons were raised in that community. My middle son was inspired and finished with a 4.33 GPA and scores of 5 on all AP exams. What happens at home after school matters. I pushed a much higher standard of English, math and science than the school provided.
You did it right.
This school was actually a well-performing school following the Vietnam War when Osborn was a popular resettlement area for Hmong refugees... not surprising. Since those families departed years ago, the school transitioned to one in which ~1% of incoming freshmen passed the state standards test as seniors (with ~80% dropping out of school). It is not the state or the school that has failed them... it is the community/social fabric that believes the government can be a substitute for a functioning family.
Democrats never did like blacks being able to read and write.
“Literacy starts at home , not at school.”
Yes. It should, but literacy ends in schools.....they are brainwashing and PsyOps factories to destroy Virtue, Common Sense, and critical thinking in our children.
Self-reliance and true education only comes from Classical Education and real life unstructured experiences with nature and other human beings, not in artificial controlled dependency centers (emasculation of boys).
Education is done without the peer-pressured group-think system of mass indoctrination and programming by the State (Common Core is Marxist curricula bathed in hyper-sexualization to destroy intellectual development (as Rousseau said it would-— (brainwashing into irrationality/base urge controlling for life).
There is no Natural Right to “education”-nor to baby-killing or to sodomy. There is a Natural Right to raise your own biological children, though-—not to have babies be killed (Life) and to have FREE WILL (Freedom of religion and thought) which is destroyed in the programming factories like that skool above does to its students.
In the 1960’s, Boston Technical High School produced competent students for technical fields. Black enrollment was about five percent. Now, the school is named after a black politician. In a hall it has a soviet size mural of Nelson Mandela. White students are rare since they have fled the Boston public schools. Why would anyone be surprised that black students raised in single mother households filled with step siblings and fed a steady diet of social justice would be near illiterate at the end of their schooling.
My daughter could read when she started kindergarten. She was not unique. All her close friends at school were equally prepared.
In that alternative universe, that is not possible, or shouldn't be, in the universe of the permanently indolent. As for making it a right, why has everything that has been tried to fix the problem failed? trillions$ have been spent in the last 50 years with zero results.
How will making it a "right" change anything?
The people who keep repeating that absurdity lack the mental horsepower to suggest something that works.
Their "right" demands that the rest of us solve a problem that they can't?
What sort of bizarro world is that?
Some people are inferior, or they are not. Let the whiners solve the problem or shut the hell up.
Or they might dream up a way to dumb the able down to their level?
Will that make them feel better?
It sure won't solve their problem!
Please don't go there.
More money has been wasted providing computers for the whiners, who either abuse them, sell them to buy drugs, lose them or simply discover porn earlier.
Without successful and engaged adult parents, solving the problem will forever be impossible. It's impossible to fix the adults without "violating their rights."
Their "rights" have condemned them to permanent ignorance and incompetence.
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