Why Detroit Children Don’t Read Too Good

The president of the Detroit school board, Otis Mathis, is not a very smart man. But that hasn’t stopped him from holding sway over the education of Detroit school children.

Just read a few of these email messages written by Mr. Mathis, uncorrected for spelling, grammar, punctuation and usage errors, and try to remember that he is the President of the Detroit School Board:

If you saw Sunday’s Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason’s he gave for closing school to many empty seats.

And another:

Do DPS control the Foundation or outside group? If an outside group control the foundation, then what is DPS Board row with selection of is director? Our we mixing DPS and None DPS row’s, and who is the watch dog?

It’s hard to believe that Mathis graduated from high school and Wayne State University, and yet never learned to read or write.

Not surprisingly, Mathis is the product of the very Detroit public school school system that he’s now leading. He’s the product of the exact type of inadequate education system he’s now perpetuating. It also comes as no surprise that Detroit schools have the worst-in-the-nation literacy scores.

Mr. Mathis is a sad case of the worst affects of social promotion and affirmative action. Even before seeing any pictures of Mr. Mathis, I knew he was black. You knew it, too. The inability to effectively read, write, and speak English is doing more to hold blacks back then any claims of racism.

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OTHERS:

Gregory at Moonbattery:

Ah, Detroit, America’s most progressive city. A liberal utopia, run exclusively by liberal Democrats whose priority in government is the achievement of “social justice” defined in progressive terms: high taxation, redistributionist social policy, and the institutionalization of racial grievances.

How’s that working out?

Townhall:

I’m sure Mr. Mathis is a likeable guy.  However, his is just one of many cases in the public sector where standards have been thrown out the window.  Why is it consistently ok for quality standards–the same standards demanded by the private sector–to be ignored in public positions?