(November 21, 2016 at 3:24 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Think of the implications of this?
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/gop-gov-...-literacy/
Quote:GOP Gov. Snyder’s office says Detroit school kids have no right to literacy
Quote:The state of Michigan is being sued because several schools in Detroit are failing to teach children how to read, and Gov. Rick Snyder’s team of lawyers has come up with a novel defense.
According to local news station CBS Detroit, Gov. Snyder’s attorneys are claiming that children who are taught within the state’s school systems have no fundamental right to literacy, which means that the state isn’t liable if its schools fail to educate them.
So, I guess in Flint that people have no right to use a municipal water system and expect it to be free of lead?
I think this is a really misleading title/article. Technically speaking, no school kids anywhere have a "right to literacy." The article makes it sound like Snyder doesn't want black people to be educated. In actuality, it's just the default position of the state since...like I said, there's no constitutional "right to literacy," which is what the law firm is arguing