How bad are things in Detroit? Not a single person stepped forward to run for the Detroit school board. Facing extinction, citizens thought better than jumping aboard a sinking ship.
And it’s with good reason. A story just released by EAGtv shows that parents have lost confidence in the adult-focused system and its elected leaders.
Detroit Public Schools are among the worst in the country. Dismal student performance, unions run amok and radical activists, like By Any Means Necessary, using the public schools as a platform for their socialist agenda. Glenn Beck featured this socialist on his Fox News show, when the moron pontificated about the virtues of the Soviet Union during the “National Day of Action to Defend Public Education” March 4th.
Detroit Public Schools has been hit with scandal after scandal. Employees stealing funds, the school board president fondling himself in front of the superintendent and a host of other problems and downright pathetic actions have been a distraction, to say the least, from educating children.
And on top of that, employee groups such as the Detroit Federation of Teachers attempt to block every effort by parents to seek alternatives.
Robert Bobb, the appointed Emergency Financial Manager, is attempting to clean up the mess and is engaged in a monumental fight with every interest group, including the elected leaders that should be rallying behind him.
What remains to be seen is if local leaders, the few that actually want to serve (for their own gain?) will be able to survive the parents that rightly have it out for them.