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If you ever want to read something to make you cry just google anything about Detroit public schools. There are buildings with books that rot because they don't have the funds for people to move them to students that need them...

HDNet had a Dan Rather reports about the place... It showed a school where they told the vocational kids to wait in the cafeteria for a bus to take them to some orientation class. After THREE HOURS they realized the bus driver was not going to show up. One women they viewed did not get actual textbooks for months. It is doubtful they have online access so how exactly can they learn outside the classroom for other assignments? It showed a spanish class where the teacher didn't show up so they grabbed some guy who's native language was spanish and he half assed it. (Oddly this is not a good idea I've met native spanish speakers who take spanish and actually do not do that well because they didn't learn grammar well).

Vendor payments are intersting... a buyer at Home Depot got fired for taking bribes from a organization in China. He basically sent stores product that was never ordered/authorized though the right channels.

typical union thug behavior, tell me again how this is better than a private school that has to actually compete??

jmason says

tell me again how this is better than a private school that has to actually compete

It's easy to make to make the counterargument by pointing at Philly schools. What is the real solution? It's probably not at either extreme.