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To: Pining_4_TX
"Probably the same reason Apple isn’t building in Detroit. Lack of infrastructure, right?"

Report: Nearly Half Of Detroiters Can’t Read

"DETROIT (WWJ) – According to a new report, 47 percent of Detroiters are “functionally illiterate.” The alarming new statistics were released by the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund on Wednesday."

This in a modern country where you are required by law to attend school until you are at least 16 years old.

11 posted on 01/22/2018 2:35:02 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

teachers union thugs


14 posted on 01/22/2018 2:39:13 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: blam
This in a modern country where you are required by law to attend school until you are at least 16 years old.

I guess considering that 40% of the kids in Detroit never graduate from high school, that comes as no surprise.

15 posted on 01/22/2018 2:40:20 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: blam

Attending school is one thing. Actually learning something is another. ;-)


16 posted on 01/22/2018 2:41:04 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: blam

“...47 percent of Detroiters are “functionally illiterate...”
And Detroit votes dimbulbcrat, does it not?
QED.


18 posted on 01/22/2018 2:47:25 PM PST by Da Coyote
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“This in a modern country where you are required by law to attend school until you are at least 16 years old.”

Nope, not in Detoilet. Here in the state of MI you have to go to school until the age of 18 or until you graduate HS.

A High School diploma from Detoilet Pubic Schools is worth about as much as a sack of mulch.


45 posted on 01/22/2018 7:09:16 PM PST by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfef)
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