State of Michigan tells Detroit students 'Literacy is not a right'

[workinclasszero]

State of Michigan tells Detroit students 'Literacy is not a right'
By: M.L. Elrick POSTED:NOV 21 2016 05:25PM EST

DETROIT (WJBK) -

Attorneys for Michigan Governor Rick Snyder are asking a judge to toss out a lawsuit against the state of Michigan filed by students in the Detroit school system and claim that literacy is not a legal right in the state of Michigan.

Seven children filed the lawsuit in September, saying decades of state disinvestment and deliberate indifference to Detroit's schools have denied them access to literacy.

The plaintiffs say the schools have deplorable building conditions, lack of books, classrooms without teachers, insufficient desks, buildings plagued by vermin, unsafe facilities and extreme temperatures.

The Michigan Attorney General asked a federal judge to dismiss a class action lawsuit arguing that Detroit schools are obligated to ensure that kids learn how to read and write. The state's motion to dismiss the lawsuit says: "there is no fundamental right to literacy".

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/218953461-story

[shenmue]

1. Ugh

[Cha]

2. How ya liking your repub asshole gov, Michigan?

Oh yeah and thanks to the majority for giving us, drumpfuck.

Brainwashed much.

Thanks working

[workinclasszero]

3. Dump's Sec of Education is from Michigan also

I believe

[Barack_America]

8. Oh, he's a complete asshole.

The amazing thing about him, however, is that he has chosen to live in Ann Arbor, liberal Mecca, where his condo is regularly protested, he is jeered at restaurants and bars.

He's a complete fool.

[dhill926]

4. jesus christ...

[gollygee]

5. Expect more of this with Betsy DeVos as education secretary

She and Snyder are buddies.

[Akacia]

6. This is so very disgusting! nt

[Generator]

7. Not in America it ain't

No sirree Bob. We should just all watch teevee and forget it. I love TV but I saw an ad for the NEW Celebrity Apprentice.
How can I live with this? Why does Billy Bush not have a job but Trump is going to be president? Explain that morality to me. No right to literacy indeed. They love the poorly educated. America is doomed as it is dumb.

[sarisataka]

9. I am curious,

does the state of Michigan say what is the purpose of a school if it is not to actually teach? Is it simply a day care?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Oh fuck off Snyder

You're afraid an educated populous will see through your bullshit

[sarcasmo]

11. We're # 1, USA! USA! USA!

[ck4829]

12. "I don't want an educated population; I want oxen" - Somoza in Nicaragua

An idea shared by Snyder?