NYT Story: For Detroit’s Children, More School Choice but Not Better Schools

[evergreen]

Hate to say it, but the best way to help Detroit parents is to reinstate tracking in all neighborhood schools. The struggle to get kids to schools all over town, with predictable attendance problems, is heartbreaking. I attended inner city schools until 8th grade, but I was always tracked into high performance groups. There is no way my parents could have transported me out of the neighborhood. Give these kids and their parents a chance.

[belleislerunner]

I'm not sure why anyone should be surprised - we have a mother [[Ms. Rivera) who clearly has never explained to an 11 year old where his body came from and we have teachers who choose to stage political protests by not going to work yet still excepting pay. And we wonder why our students don't perform at the same level as Stuyvesant High School. There's only two excuses - teachers and parents.

[southen]

I'm not sure why anyone should be surprised - we have a mother [[Ms. Rivera) who clearly has never explained to an 11 year old where his body came from and we have teachers who choose to stage political protests by not going to work yet still excepting pay. And we wonder why our students don't perform at the same level as Stuyvesant High School. There's only two excuses - teachers and parents.

Spouting more of this nonsense I see. Your blind dislike of teachers isn't rooted in reality and for some reason you are incapable of understanding why teachers might strike for better working conditions and to receive pay they've already earned.