The sky is falling. Mass hysteria in the streets. What are we to do?

Ha ha ha... Maybe now the administration at Utica Community Schools will feel t . That we took a pay cuthe pinch Just like their support services felt the pinch last July. Maybe the overpaid superintendents Should take some pay cuts. And by the way I do not believe in the theory... we took a pay cut because we now have to pay part of our health care. Or we haven't had a raise in several years so that is considered a pay cut. Those exact wourds were spoken at a UCS BOE meeting. Are they serious? Poor leadership to say the least!!! It's time for a change... It's time for a recall.

This seems to be about money, not education methods, curriculum changes or students. If the administrators are truly concerned about untested methods, why did the adopt the "Inventive spelling" and "Whole language" system? Public high school grads cannot spell even simple words. Parents want better quality education for their children and schools compete for those students. Competition is healthy and the students are the winners, as schools improve to try to recruit them. Vouchers may have been defeated in the past, but when parents found out that their children could not spell, add or read, they got very interested. Put the students as the #1 priority and demand excellence.

We need to start by condensing school districts around the state. It's absurd that Madison Heights alone has two school districts for a small city of around 30,000. It's even worse that Warren has 4 or 5 school districts within it's boundaries.

A sad fact they don't tell about is that in a poverty stricken area like Southwest Detroit there was a Parochial school who graduated 95 % of students who entered in 9th grade while the rest of Det. Public schools only graduated 40% of entering 9th graders ! This parochial school had to close its doors due to lack of funding as the parents could not afford the tuition and the school was letting anyone come assisting them with alumni scholarships but those funds were limited too! I am sure the situation was similair with all the Parochial High School closings in the last 10 yrs in the city of Detroit. And they wonder why most left! Vouchers could have saved the City of Detroit. Superintendents and MEA only care about paychecks and raises!

Covingtons results in KC were miserable. This time he wants no statewide comparable data. With regards to private schools, it helps to have parents who really care. It also helps to be able to expell extreme misbehavior. Public schools by law can not expell for more than 180 days. Fact is public schools educate everyone. There is a slice in the school that are as good or better than private school kids. The next slice is not as good because they do not care to be. The trouble slice doesn't care and looks to defy authority for a multitude of reasons. The last slice are special needs kids that privates don't even make an attempt to educate.. I believe public schools do a better job of educating kids because they serve all. Problem I have with these bills is that they attempt to use the public finance system in a private school discipline structure with hand picked students. With all of those advantages they exempt themselves from statewide standards and reporting.

Public monies have to be accountable by putting a value on their meap, mme, and act tests. Lastly, these schools don't have to respond to foia requests. I think that violates federal law. Does this sound like a republican idea. Let's fix the schools by consolidating power at the state, have an unaccountable authority, suspend executive checks, override constitutional concerns and size public assets from the local authorities in the name of their children. I guess the republican brand is poised to win the hearts a minds of our young minds.