Comments on: Detroit Schools Graduate only 66% of SENIORS http://inkslwc.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/detroit-schools-graduate-only-66-of-seniors/ A blog that I post on whenever I see something that makes me want to go off on a Republican (Libertarian every once in a while) rant. I will cover stories from all over the nation and world, but I will try to cover as many stories about my home state of Michigan as I can (I'll also talk a lot about Texas, because Texas is awesome!). Note, all times are for the Eastern time zone, daylight savings time when applicable, so stop leaving comments that it's only noon in California and I said 3:00 P.M. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:55:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: inkslwc http://inkslwc.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/detroit-schools-graduate-only-66-of-seniors/#comment-2079 inkslwc Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:28:35 +0000 http://inkslwc.wordpress.com/?p=485#comment-2079 I would agree - that a lot of it is a lack of parenting, a point that I've made a theme over the last few days. And you bring up a good point about the racism - look at cities like Taylor, Wyandotte, and Ecorse, where you still have extreme racial differences and that has caused extreme racial tensions. The suburbs need to stand up and stop the crumbling of the area - like the strip club trying to move into Lincoln Park. If businesses like that come to the area, the suburbs will go down the hill and Wayne County will fall. I would agree – that a lot of it is a lack of parenting, a point that I’ve made a theme over the last few days.

And you bring up a good point about the racism – look at cities like Taylor, Wyandotte, and Ecorse, where you still have extreme racial differences and that has caused extreme racial tensions.

The suburbs need to stand up and stop the crumbling of the area – like the strip club trying to move into Lincoln Park. If businesses like that come to the area, the suburbs will go down the hill and Wayne County will fall.

]]> By: obbop http://inkslwc.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/detroit-schools-graduate-only-66-of-seniors/#comment-2078 obbop Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:52:45 +0000 http://inkslwc.wordpress.com/?p=485#comment-2078 The Chinese in California, whether new immigrants or 5th generation Americans through-and-through, sure do well educationally. I think it's culture with parents being the most important part of the equation. But, we have to blame schools or teachers or Whitey or whatever for personal and/or cultural failings. The Chinese in California, whether new immigrants or 5th generation Americans through-and-through, sure do well educationally. I think it’s culture with parents being the most important part of the equation. But, we have to blame schools or teachers or Whitey or whatever for personal and/or cultural failings.

]]> By: christian http://inkslwc.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/detroit-schools-graduate-only-66-of-seniors/#comment-2076 christian Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:59:47 +0000 http://inkslwc.wordpress.com/?p=485#comment-2076 I would say there are a multitude of reasons for the accelerating dropout rate; single to no-parent households, no real parental figure if even if a parent in the household, an economically depressed and forgotten city going on 40 years, an extremely corrupt government, waste, mismanagement, lack of support from neighboring cities, etc. The last one is something I often find that people in the suburbs don't have any concept of. Quite often I am told “Fuck Detroit” or “I'm never going there” which I find interesting. How do these people think the suburbs will fare when the major city falls into an potentially irreversible despair and economic decline? Well, I think we have the answer if we look at the current situation…bad. I don't think it's fair to put a 30+ year problem on teachers. All the problems leading up to the eventual dropout have their origin outside school. In fact all the problems originate outside of school. School, as a social conditioning system, only works when there the system it was created for exists outside of school. I have lived in Detroit, not in those wonderful little oases like Indian Village, and the story and mood from the inside is another world from the outside. The wall between Detroit and everywhere else was built by my parents generation. Both sides are guilty of a myopic fear, racism, bigotry and being manipulated by local governments to keep a lucrative system in place. Also, to compare one of the wealthiest counties in the entire United States, Oakland County, to Wayne County seems a bit naive. I would love L. Brooks Patterson to enter in what I could only imagine being an extremely hostile environment. Racism and status quo go both ways. Don't get me wrong, I would also love to see the city turn around whatever it takes, but I saw what happened when Kwame Kilpatrick first was elected. Racism aside, he was elected over Freman Hendrix because he was more black, the hip-hop mayor. That's what you get when you elect the person you want to have a beer with. …and that's why last year I left. ranting no-affiliation I would say there are a multitude of reasons for the accelerating dropout rate; single to no-parent households, no real parental figure if even if a parent in the household, an economically depressed and forgotten city going on 40 years, an extremely corrupt government, waste, mismanagement, lack of support from neighboring cities, etc.

The last one is something I often find that people in the suburbs don’t have any concept of. Quite often I am told “Fuck Detroit” or “I’m never going there” which I find interesting. How do these people think the suburbs will fare when the major city falls into an potentially irreversible despair and economic decline? Well, I think we have the answer if we look at the current situation…bad.

I don’t think it’s fair to put a 30+ year problem on teachers. All the problems leading up to the eventual dropout have their origin outside school. In fact all the problems originate outside of school. School, as a social conditioning system, only works when there the system it was created for exists outside of school. I have lived in Detroit, not in those wonderful little oases like Indian Village, and the story and mood from the inside is another world from the outside. The wall between Detroit and everywhere else was built by my parents generation. Both sides are guilty of a myopic fear, racism, bigotry and being manipulated by local governments to keep a lucrative system in place.

Also, to compare one of the wealthiest counties in the entire United States, Oakland County, to Wayne County seems a bit naive. I would love L. Brooks Patterson to enter in what I could only imagine being an extremely hostile environment. Racism and status quo go both ways.

Don’t get me wrong, I would also love to see the city turn around whatever it takes, but I saw what happened when Kwame Kilpatrick first was elected. Racism aside, he was elected over Freman Hendrix because he was more black, the hip-hop mayor. That’s what you get when you elect the person you want to have a beer with.

…and that’s why last year I left.

ranting no-affiliation

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