Detroit to close half of its schools and put 60 kids in each classroom

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I know......my friend once got threatened "to be stapled to the wall" by a 10 year old, all funded by the tax payer.

[mawilson 2,133]

Detroit has schools?

[Zero Sum 305]

How pathetic. Corporal punishment should definitely be allowed. This is maybe another parent-teacher initiative that could be explored. The kids need to learn to respect authority.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

How pathetic. Corporal punishment should definitely be allowed. This is maybe another parent-teacher initiative that could be explored. The kids need to learn to respect authority.

When I was in school, getting "hacks" with a wooden paddle was the norm. You messed up, and you got whacked.

[Zero Sum 305]

Some people like getting spanked.

[웃 910]

Detroit has schools?

My thoughts are schools should be eliminated in Detroit altogether.

Those BAD AS$ kids don't need to be in school, they need to be in church all day, 5 days a week.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

When I was in school, getting "hacks" with a wooden paddle was the norm. You messed up, and you got whacked.

and kids also learned to respect adults/elders back then too.

Now the lot of them are little brats.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

and kids also learned to respect adults/elders back then too.

Now the lot of them are little brats.

Ya they are. If we talked back to our parents, teachers, bus drivers...whatever like these little b@ast@rds to today we would have gotten five across the head. Parents nowadays are good for blaming everyone but themselves for their kids being ignorant little hellions. It's all part of the "dumbing down of America".

[^_^ 5,021]

This is the city I live in.

Here are 2 properties in the $1.5 million range. These would be at least $10 million homes in New Jersey, right?

http://www.trulia.co...hville-MI-48167

http://www.trulia.co...hville-MI-48167

I plugged one of those street addresses into the New York Time's ACS explorer and identified what is an almost identical neighborhood in central jersey. In Princeton, to be precise. Median household income (adjusted for cost of living using CNN cost of living calculator), racial composition, educational attainment etc. Then I looked within that neighborhood and found similar (going by # of bedrooms and sq footage) homes in the 2.5M+ range. Not 10 million.

Here's one.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/754-Great-Road_Mercer-County_NJ_08540_M53854-27555

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[BishopM 114]

Meanwhile, a recruiter from an IT firm based out of Detroit has been telling me how awesome of a place Detroit is.

I lived outside of Detroit for 10 years. Its not awesome However, Michigan itself is GREAT state ...but you need to be around Ann Arbor if you're gonna live near Detroit..

Man, 60 kids though is going to be rough in any school. I'll say a prayer for those kids

[BishopM 114]

When I was in school, getting "hacks" with a wooden paddle was the norm. You messed up, and you got whacked.

...same here...both the VP of my elementary and Jr High schools proudly displayed their variety of paddles. Alot of them were crafted in shop class and given to him...it was no big deal back then.

However, I think that there probably isn't a big enough paddle in Detroit for 60 kids in one classroom...

[BishopM 114]

I plugged one of those street addresses into the New York Time's ACS explorer and identified what is an almost identical neighborhood in central jersey. In Princeton, to be precise. Median household income (adjusted for cost of living using CNN cost of living calculator), racial composition, educational attainment etc. Then I looked within that neighborhood and found similar (going by # of bedrooms and sq footage) homes in the 2.5M+ range. Not 10 million.

Here's one.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/754-Great-Road_Mercer-County_NJ_08540_M53854-27555

That just means that LI can buy 4 of them, since they're only a measley 2.5M+

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Well, the problem with the public education system today, is it's very much controlled by hack politicians/individuals who want to brain wash kids in their own way. At least when it comes to things like social studies/history/science.

Just look at the big ordeal with the Texas board of education and their deciding what to put in the social studies books this past year. The scary part about that one, is that a good majority of the nation uses those exact same books because they don't have the buying power Texas has. So you really don't have a choice in the history your child is being taught, eventhough it might be revisionist.

Math and Reading are about the only two subjects that cannot be really tainted by politics/those with an agenda. No matter what that agenda may be.

I agree, Texas should not be in charge of the contents of our school books.

[Pooky 3,825]

I agree, Texas politicians should not be in charge of the contents of our school books.

Just a reminder that Texas doesn't have a lock on the idiots trying to rig school curricula, although it might have the loudest and dumbest