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By Associated Press | Posted: Sun 7:31 PM, Jul 01, 2018
DETROIT (AP) (07/01/18)- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit focused on the poor reading skills of students at several Detroit schools, including because he concluded there is no right to literacy.
Judge Stephen Murphy III agreed in his 40-page ruling that "when a child who could be taught to read goes untaught, the child suffers a lasting injury - and so does society." But he added it still doesn't follow that literacy is a right. Murphy's written ruling was posted late Friday in U.S. District Court for eastern Michigan.
The lawsuit filed in 2016 argued the schools are in "slum-like conditions" and "functionally incapable of delivering access to literacy."
It accused Gov. Rick Snyder, the state school board and others of violating the civil rights of low-income students.
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RKP5637
(67,107 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)brush
(53,776 posts)too much of that and future trumps won't get elected.
SamKnause
(13,101 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,320 posts)Asshole
Cha
(297,190 posts)dream.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)only the rich will get an education, more ignorance, more gullibility, easier to exploit and oppress the people.
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)The 30% eat it up.
procon
(15,805 posts)If "there is no right to literacy," then what is the point of education? Without an education mandate, no schools are needed and therefore students become just a large mass of untapped child laborers.
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,703 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 2, 2018, 12:15 PM - Edit history (1)
Our liberal founding fathers understood that representative government requires an educated electorate. We won most of the opening battles in this ongoing ideological war, and we've won most ever since.
Note, if there is no right to literacy, what duty do we have to provide universal education,. much less to make both attending and paying for it mandatory?
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)Lars39
(26,109 posts)appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Pay us to warehouse the kids until they age out of the system.
You'll have to pay extra for real education.
Many charter/private schools can't get accreditation and often hire uncredentialed teachers.