What kind of teachers do they get now? If they do have decent teachers now it obviously isn't showing up in the results. I can't imagine the teaching situation would get any worse than a city that just filed bankruptcy.
You still didn't answer how they were going to pay those teachers, better yet in a privatized education system, how are poor people going to pay for it. I didn't just address Detroit I said all impoverished areas. How does your system work there?
It's rock bottom, so I don't know how you can make that assertion.
"Public education in Detroit led them to be as uneducated as they could possibly be."
"Well, it'd be worse if it was privatized."
How does that make any sense? It can't get worse than THE worst.
The last refuge of liberalism is to always insist that privatizing would make things worse even in the face of incontrovertible evidence that the public sphere has been an abject failure.
I just saw a list of the top 100 worst rated public schools in the country none were in Detroit, in fact none were in Michigan. Another list had one school in Michigan in the top 25. There are in 4 Philly, I think 7 total in PA on that list. Both lists had a number of schools from Wisconsin and South Carolina on them.
Privatizing education would make it better how? Put more financial restraints on people who are already having a hard time? I also mentioned other impoverished areas, not just Detroit. Same question goes to you as it did CRock, how does your system help them? How are you going to attract teachers to those areas? You'd have to pay more, and how are you going to pay more in an area that is impoverished. I can't see how you would think it would get better. You wouldn't attract better teachers, you'd attract teachers who couldn't get hired at better schools, because they weren't qualified enough or weren't good enough. You'd have the same problem without anyway to fix it.
The problem with education system today, is that parents don't care and aren't involved and the other problem is tenure. The other problem is we teach to tests instead of curriculum. We hold back better students to not allow the slower students to feel out of place.
I am not the poster who falls back into an ideological rhetoric in every single debate so don't throw that liberalism bs at me.
You know what I would do if I lived in Detroit? I would move somewhere else. If you still live in Detroit you deserve the misery you choose to live in.
Yeah because being poor gives you so many options.
But what about the children, C-rock?
They don't have government provided teachers! How are they gonna do better than working at McDonalds without public education!