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    Default No right to education/literacy

    https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits...ss-to-literacy

    U.S. Court: Detroit students have no right to access to literacy

    On Friday, dumped out with the least desirable news of the week came word that a lawsuit arguing that Detroit students were being denied an education had been dismissed.

    Last year, the state moved for dismissal, arguing that the 14th Amendment contains no reference to literacy.

    Then, last week, U.S. District Judge Stephen Murphy III agreed with the state.

    Literacy is important, the judge noted. But students enjoy no right to access to being taught literacy. All the state has to do is make sure schools run. If they are unable to educate their students, that's a shame, but court rulings have not established that "access to literacy" is "a fundamental right."
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Whoever the 8th grader was who taught 7th and 8th grade math when they couldn't find a teacher deserves a scholarship when he/she graduates just for that display of character.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits...ss-to-literacy

    U.S. Court: Detroit students have no right to access to literacy

    On Friday, dumped out with the least desirable news of the week came word that a lawsuit arguing that Detroit students were being denied an education had been dismissed.

    Last year, the state moved for dismissal, arguing that the 14th Amendment contains no reference to literacy.

    Then, last week, U.S. District Judge Stephen Murphy III agreed with the state.

    Literacy is important, the judge noted. But students enjoy no right to access to being taught literacy. All the state has to do is make sure schools run. If they are unable to educate their students, that's a shame, but court rulings have not established that "access to literacy" is "a fundamental right."
    That makes no sense to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits...ss-to-literacy

    U.S. Court: Detroit students have no right to access to literacy

    On Friday, dumped out with the least desirable news of the week came word that a lawsuit arguing that Detroit students were being denied an education had been dismissed.

    Last year, the state moved for dismissal, arguing that the 14th Amendment contains no reference to literacy.

    Then, last week, U.S. District Judge Stephen Murphy III agreed with the state.

    Literacy is important, the judge noted. But students enjoy no right to access to being taught literacy. All the state has to do is make sure schools run. If they are unable to educate their students, that's a shame, but court rulings have not established that "access to literacy" is "a fundamental right."
    You can't have a democracy without a literate society, a robust middle class and a free press. The REASON for the development of the public school system was to teach immigrants to speak English and read and write.

    The court should be ashamed that they know so little about our history.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    You can't have a democracy without a literate society, a robust middle class and a free press. The REASON for the development of the public school system was to teach immigrants to speak English and read and write.

    The court should be ashamed that they know so little about our history.
    yet most people demand that the courts be the final arbiter of our constitution. how crazy is that?
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    You can't have a democracy without a literate society, a robust middle class and a free press.
    that's exactly why demmycrat urban areas fail........show me a city run by lib'ruls and you will find illiteracy, an absent middle class, and a lame-stream media that favors demmycrats.........

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    that's exactly why demmycrat urban areas fail........show me a city run by lib'ruls and you will find illiteracy, an absent middle class, and a lame-stream media that favors demmycrats.........
    I hardly think you are qualified to judge anyone's education.

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    The United States is one of the only countries on the planet that has not ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which recognized a person's fundamental right to an education. Even Iran has ratified it. Yep, that's right... the Islamic Republic of Iran is more progressive on recognizing a human right to education than the United States.

    It is actually remarkable that a lot of people in this country believe they have a right to horde military-style assault rifles, but children do not have a right to an adequate education. Having worked tangentially on a state level human right to clean water initiative, I actually got some good insights into the widespread. hostility to these types of social, economic, and cultural rights - hostility that is particularly ubiquitous in the Reich Wing.

    You know what it basically comes down to? The cheap skate Reich Wing does not want to run a perceived risk of being obligated, being on the hook, to pay for water and education for poor people.

    It's every man for himself, folks!

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    I hardly think you are qualified to judge anyone's education.
    really?......anyone capable of reading the OP should be qualified.....as I recall that excludes 47% of people who graduated from Detroit public schools......
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/..._n_858307.html

    what do blacks have to lose from getting rid of demmycrats?........

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    that's exactly why demmycrat urban areas fail........show me a city run by lib'ruls and you will find illiteracy, an absent middle class, and a lame-stream media that favors demmycrats.........
    Shutting down the public schools would be an act of kindness for the inner cities.

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    Hey Nordnerd.....instead of groaning the post, accept the challenge.......show us that democratic lib'rul city as defined by kudzu......

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    I think we all know where the state of american society is, you have no right to healthy water to drink either. Especially on military bases and in our internal colonies.

    Your Military
    The withheld HHS study on base water contaminants is out — and it’s not good
    https://www.militarytimes.com/news/y...-its-not-good/

    Support our troops, fweedumb isn't fwee.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fentoine Lum View Post
    I think we all know where the state of american society is, you have no right to healthy water to drink either. Especially on military bases and in our internal colonies.

    Your Military
    The withheld HHS study on base water contaminants is out — and it’s not good
    https://www.militarytimes.com/news/y...-its-not-good/

    Support our troops, fweedumb isn't fwee.
    The case was about constitutional rights. Clearly, there is nothing in the Constitution about education. Things like drinking water (and education) are a matter of policy everyone supports, but they are not constitutional rights. They are covered by legislation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    You can't have a democracy without a literate society, a robust middle class and a free press. The REASON for the development of the public school system was to teach immigrants to speak English and read and write.

    The court should be ashamed that they know so little about our history.
    You seem to be still under the impression that the power structure is interested in an open democracy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    The case was about constitutional rights. Clearly, there is nothing in the Constitution about education. Things like drinking water (and education) are a matter of policy everyone supports, but they are not constitutional rights. They are covered by legislation.
    The aristocracy will decide.

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