{"id":9080,"date":"2010-03-10T07:11:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T12:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9080"},"modified":"2010-03-10T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:46:09","slug":"the-illiterate-leading-the-unmotivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9080","title":{"rendered":"The Illiterate Leading The Unmotivated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of schools &#8211; the head of the Detroit Public School board, which graduates less than a third of its students, albeit at exquisite expense &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/theblogprof.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/another-symptom-of-problem-detroit.html\">writes like an illiterate:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The school board is led by Otis Mathis, who wrote a mass email last August:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Do DPS control the Foundation or outside group? If an outside group control the foundation, then what is DPS Board row with selection of is director? Our we mixing DPS and None DPS row&#8217;s, and who is the watch dog?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the beginning of an email to supporters a few days ago that started with this:<\/p>\n<p><em>If you saw Sunday&#8217;s Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason&#8217;s he gave for closing school to many empty seats.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember when MN2020&#8217;s John Fitzgerald said that the big advantage public systems had over charter schools was that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mn2020.org\/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&amp;SEC=%7B198C7021-C205-4F44-B914-84BDAF67A34B%7D\">you could elect the school board<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Some punch lines write themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of schools &#8211; the head of the Detroit Public School board, which graduates less than a third of its students, albeit at exquisite expense &#8211; writes like an illiterate: The school board is led by Otis Mathis, who wrote a mass email last August: Do DPS control the Foundation or outside group? If an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9080"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9194,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9080\/revisions\/9194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}