Tag: DPS

Yeah, because we ought not really have any borders, and those border patrol agents just want to hang Latinos and burn crosses on their lawns. DEFINITELY NOT coffee ready pals!

I will let you folks make the connection as to whether she is a positive force or not in our state. She certainly must have SOME influence however, being a DPS school board member and all.  And she is using that position to spread her love:

"Elena Herrada, a Detroit Public Schools board member from District 2, will give a talk titled "Detroit Public School Board Member in Exile" 2:30-3:45 pm April 24 in Room 134 S. Kedzie Hall. A reception in the CLS Office in Room 200 S. Kedzie will be held immediately following the talk."

Maybe because I had more co-workers who had more conscience about training me at that time, or they were just superior to the people turning out the "young guns" nowadays, but I understood this axiom very clearly even back then, and over the years, have gained a greater appreciation for it.

It is also a lesson that I found is easily and very applicable outside of trucking.

Am I trying to change the focus over from politics to Trucking?

Not exactly.

How about all under-performing/failing Michigan Public Schools?

With Labor Day winding down and summer officially now over, we can start focusing on the things needed to get Michigan going again.

Okay, okay, so our elected officials don't really start working until this Wednesday (must be nice), but now is a good as time as any to get the dialogue going here.

So far, on Lansing's Agenda for this fall:

-    Passing Freedom to Work legislation for Michigan.
-    Getting another bridge built across the Detroit River.
-    Making all of Michigan's Public Schools, Schools of Choice.

That last one sounds great on paper.

Not satisfied with how little Johnny's/Suzie's education is progressing?

Just yank `em out of their under-performing school and put them into any district you want that has an available seat.

Those other districts, you want the money. I know they do. So sit down, shut up and do as we in Lansing tell you to do.

How does that really solve the underlying problem?

Many of you will be quick to say, "Well, what was your first clue?"

This is going a little beyond that, including some disturbing comments from Lansing leaders on how to address their latest problem.

What should we expect then from an initiative that will grant all children in the Detroit Public School District a free breakfast, a free lunch, and a free snack? Certainly their will be short term positives from such a program. Less hunger in the classroom has got to be a good thing as far as that goes.

And yet, the program has further goals:

"One of the primary goals of this program is to eliminate the stigma that students feel when they get a free lunch, as opposed to paying cash."

Given some recent examples of charter school performance versus public school performance.

The remainder of the scores are identical.  Follow the image to a more complete representation. (PDF)

I have suggested before that schools be contracted out for the sake of the children.  Don't teach the kids? Don't get paid.

"The best way for Detroit to clean up that mess, is to kick ALL the teachers, employees, and management in the Detroit schools to the curb.  Then open contracts and bidding for the purchase or rental of the school buildings and resources."

Its not the lack of material that causes this, but rather a question of "where should I start?"  An article that has been written and re-written by me for the last month is one that addresses the Detroit schools problem.  Namely its inability to educate the kids, and then do so within a particular financial framework.

Something we outstaters call a budget.

PJ TV has a video released today worth watching.  from the introduction:

Detroit has been controlled by liberals for years, but close to half of the people living there are functionally illiterate. Even more surprisingly, Detroit had a Public School Board President who had difficulty writing coherently.

Of course one might think this is old news as the 'old news' cycle goes.  One might have been banging one's head too long over Otis' written word issues.  Detroit STILL has a failed system.  It has a new emergency manager in who thinks carefully slicing away with a scalpel is the cure for an unbelievably cancerous patient, when all that will be accomplished is a painful biopsy at best.