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    Tag: DPS

    Radical Leftist From DPS To Indoctrinate MSU Students


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Fri Apr 12, 2013 at 01:21:40 PM EST
    Tags: Michigan, Detroit, Elena Herrada, DPS, Emergency Manager, Radical Leftist, Border Agents Are KKK (all tags)

    By golly, folks have a right to their opinions, but THIS is some straight up hyperbole:

    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."
    Obviously it will be centered on her trials and tribulations as a 'marked' school board member; one that will likely be openly complaining about Detroit's emergency manager, and his crushing blows aimed at minorities.

    We've never seen this play before, have we?

    (1 comment) Comments >>

    Yo-ho! Yo-ho! A Pirate's Life For Me...


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 01:40:20 PM EST
    Tags: PA 72, PA 4, PA 4.1?, Gov. Blanchard, Gov. Granholm, Gov. Snyder, Robert Davis, Highland Park Public Schools, Fraud, AG Schuette where are you?, Ecorse, Jonathan Brown, Dr Walter Burt, Pontiac, Benton Harbor, DPS, Detroit?, So what is YOUR solution?, Dr Jumanne Sledge, Now add Inkster Schools to the equation (all tags)

    Didn't care for the $4M additional taxpayer dollars going to float the Highland Park School District?  Then brace yourselves for the Pontiac School District $159,922,531 abyss:

    And when the waters get too hot there, it's time to hoist anchor and set sail for...

    (1 comment, 215 words in story) Full Story

    A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

    Stupidity should be painful.


    By KG One, Section News
    Posted on Sun Feb 26, 2012 at 08:29:59 AM EST
    Tags: PA 72, PA 4, PA 4.1?, Gov. Blanchard, Gov. Granholm, Gov. Snyder, Robert Davis, Highland Park Public Schools, Fraud, AG Schuette where are you?, Ecorse, Pontiac, Benton Harbor, DPS, Detroit?, So what is YOUR solution? (all tags)

    This very important lesson was imparted to me when I had began driving for a living several decades ago by a wise trucker.

    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.

    {Details below the fold}

    (11 comments, 1463 words in story) Full Story

    Do you really want to fix Detroit's Public Schools?


    By KG One, Section News
    Posted on Mon Sep 05, 2011 at 08:30:23 PM EST
    Tags: DPS, ALL Public Schools, Why not go with something that works?, Parent Revolution, Parent Trigger Law (all tags)

    ~ Promoted For Discussion ~

    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?

    {Continued after the fold}

    (3 comments, 1142 words in story) Full Story

    Buddy, have you got $327-million?


    By KG One, Section News
    Posted on Tue Aug 30, 2011 at 01:29:59 PM EST
    Tags: DPS, Guess how much money they need now?, Mike Flanagan, Malik Shabazz, Gov. Snyder Plan (all tags)

    Detroit's got some problems.

    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.

    {Click below to continue reading.}

    (3 comments, 449 words in story) Full Story

    Victims of Benevolence


    By Rougman, Section News
    Posted on Tue Aug 16, 2011 at 02:19:29 PM EST
    Tags: DPS, Free Lunch Program (all tags)

    One of the standards of both economics and human behavior is that you will get more of the activities you reward, and will get fewer of the activities that you punish.

    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."
    Here we are getting into a gray area where the long term negative outcomes might very well overwhelm whatever positive returns might result.

    What becomes of a society where a natural revulsion for accepting government handouts has been systematically stamped out? What results when young people are trained that government wealth redistribution efforts are every bit as legitimate as those that teach citizens to be independent and self-sufficient?

    (8 comments, 503 words in story) Full Story

    Charter Schools For All


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Tue Jun 21, 2011 at 11:09:27 PM EST
    Tags: DPS, Detroit, Michigan, Schools, Choice, Charter, Contract Schools, Investment (all tags)

    I mean it.

    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."

    Yep.

    Fees for services rendered. How unconventional.

    (2 comments) Comments >>

    Detroit Schools And Illiteracy


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Tue May 24, 2011 at 10:15:54 PM EST
    Tags: DPS, Detroit, Michigan, Schools, Choice, Charter, Contract Schools, Investment, Throw the baby out (all tags)

    I have a bit of writer's block.

    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.

    Otis Mathis.  The guy's name was Otis Mathis, and he was the Detroit School board president.  And if one was to converse with him through the written word, one might find themselves banging a pained noggin on a wall somewhere.  Otis' "issue" was document in March by the Blog Prof who penned a piece worth a second look.

    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.

    More below.

    (19 comments, 800 words in story) Full Story

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