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Court rules Michigan has no responsibility to provide quality public education
2014 Dec 19, 12:07pm 1,482 views 7 comments
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It would be nice to educate Rep/Con/Teas but the attempt would probably be a waste.
Ceffer
2014 Dec 19, 3:46pm
If an educational system is unable to reconstitute genetic cretins and brain dregs as geniuses, and give everybody a gold star, it has failed in it's legal obligations.
Problem is, you don't have to be very smart to fuck, have babies, and turn food into shit, thusly what the schools have to deal with.
Did the final brief say: "In summary, the courts cannot mandate that the schools turn chicken shit into chicken salad at any cost."
The court decision is right. The purpose of the State is to provide basic financial needs for all school districts equally. not to make all school districts perform equally.
Performance is a local responsibility.
indigenous
2014 Dec 19, 10:22pm
Performance is a local responsibility.
The whole thing should be a local responsibly. The premise that it is more "equal" because the Fed gets involved is laughable, the premise that money solves the problem is laughable, the premise that Detroit wasn't created by government overreach and corruption is laughable.
http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2014/11/25/court-rules-michigan-has-no-responsibility-to-provide-quality-public-education/
DETROIT — In a blow to schoolchildren statewide, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled on Nov. 7 the State of Michigan has no legal obligation to provide a quality public education to students in the struggling Highland Park School District.
A 2-1 decision reversed an earlier circuit court ruling that there is a “broad compelling state interest in the provision of an education to all children.” The appellate court said the state has no constitutional requirement to ensure schoolchildren actually learn fundamental skills such as reading — but rather is obligated only to establish and finance a public education system, regardless of quality. Waving off decades of historic judicial impact on educational reform, the majority opinion also contends that “judges are not equipped to decide educational policy.”
“This ruling should outrage anyone who cares about our public education system,” said Kary L. Moss, executive director of the American Civil Liberties of Michigan. “The court washes its hands and absolves the state of any responsibility in a district that has failed and continues to fail its children.”
The decision dismisses an unprecedented “right-to-read” lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Michigan in July 2012 on behalf of eight students of nearly 1,000 children attending K-12 public schools in Highland Park, Mich. The suit, which named as defendants the State of Michigan, its agencies charged with overseeing public education and the Highland Park School District, maintained that the state failed to take effective steps to ensure that students are reading at grade level.