Sad - Detroit Schools Bankruptcy & Children

[Issachar]

He says he is sympathetic to parents concerns about the impact of school closings and layoffs on children's education. "I have yet to meet a parent in Detroit who is not an advocate of their child getting a top-notch education," he says.

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It's hard to imagine a major city, graduating with subpar education, a large amount of children every year with hardly a job available anymore. They were just born. Grew up in a system ravaged by prior generations growing debt ... as usual, paid back by people not yet born. I think the above is a picture ... a preview, of things to come for many schools. If schools close, if education slumps more than it already is and all these people cannot get a job, what then?

Issachar

[Glorify Him]

Re: Sad - Detroit Schools Bankruptcy & Children

Anarchy.

[N1095A]

Re: Sad - Detroit Schools Bankruptcy & Children

It's hard to imagine a major city, graduating with subpar education, a large amount of children every year with hardly a job available anymore.

Unfortunately it's not hard to imagine at all. There are realities to managing any country / economy and they are routinely ignored and usurped at many levels. That's why responsible management has to be done and the country simply ignores it. There are perils beyond this in diverse ways. Some very stark realities.

These are the kinds of things I've been warning of for the last 2+ years especially, the danger of continuing down these paths with no underlying support. There comes a day when it all comes crashing down.

[Issachar]

Re: Sad - Detroit Schools Bankruptcy & Children

That's why responsible management has to be done and the country simply ignores it.

Very true. I'm thinking that a major component, if not THE component, to being responsible, lies outside of self. In other words, to be responsible, one has to think and do what is best for over all society; locally at least, and set aside what the "self" wants. e.g. "Sure I'd like a larger salary, but let's look and see if the funding is there to support that. Let's see if my duties warrant that in this local economy." That would be responsible. Instead, selfishness is the rule of the day. e.g. "I want a larger salary. 'They' have the money somewhere for this ... I just know it! HEY! Why are my taxes going up?!" duh ... The problem though is that selfishness is intrinsic to the sin nature. Without Christ, it is nearly impossible to forget 'self' and act according to the greater good. But not entirely impossible as God has apparently allowed a speck of something in there to keep society/the world going. There are unsaved people who will run into a burning building to save someone else and numerous other instances. But those mostly seem to take place in emergency type situations like war, disasters, etc. During times of relative calm, selfishness is very alive and well. The U.S. has had much relative calm to live in for a long time.

If a school administrator or a superintendent is doing a good job and that good job is reflected in higher test scores, higher attendance, less time spent on policing with more safety for staff and students, more efficiency in the process of getting things done, etc., then they should get a decent salary. But it NEEDS to be in context of the local economy.

But how can policing, for example, be cut down if children are unruly? How can they be well behaved without discipline growing up? How can they be disciplined growing up when there is so often no dad around and mom is overwhelmed? Then there is pressure that most of us cannot imagine to be in with a group for survival; i.e. a gang. To stay in the gang, one has to do as the gang does. Why the family/neighborhood breakdown? Government disallowed praying in school, bringing bibles to school, the singing of Christmas HYMNS at school, children are not allowed to be spanked. Parents are at risk of confronting the "system" if they spank (properly) their children. The government allows the production and dissemination of porn which virtually all children have viewed and many view often which results in boys growing (physically) into men that thing the opposite sex exists just for their personal, cheap pleasure. No discipline, no morals, no oversight/guidance WILL result in vacant lives. This is not only a inner city problem. I know for a fact that it is very present in the 'burbs, with all ethnicities and all income levels.

The only real solution, as on this board we all know, is acceptance of the gospel. 'course ... they need to hear it first in order to accept it. "Oh, you're really a good person inside; we just need to discover how to bring that out." ain't gonna cut it.

Issachar, thinking he was going to type a sentence or two ... everything is so connected though.

[N1095A]

Re: Sad - Detroit Schools Bankruptcy & Children

I'm talking about several problems, including illegal immigration. When you take jobs away from American citizens, they can't pay their bills. When they can't pay their bills, they go on welfare and drain that part of the system. Local revenues and housing taxes support schools. Double that burden by adding to school rolls. Depress wages.

The local medical services will collapse next. These are mathematical certainties.

Your state and federal politician, especially if they're millionaires, want you to work for nothing, barely surviving so they can line their pockets and the pockets of their buddies. They don't want to be bothered with paying taxes and unemployment benefits. So you are kicked out, they bring in illegals and then they claim it's "jobs American's don't want to do". That's a double-hit on the system right there.

At the other end of the spectrum is the politician who wants to enjoy the popularity of being the savior of all, spending other people's money, with no regard to how it is collected or managed. Hence a community organizer who does little more than spend other people's money. They never actually created or managed money. They just spent money that magically came from somewhere else. Imagine if we had one in the White House. Oh, wait ....

Collapse the economy, set in a Balkanized anarchy and the American people will be duped intro trading away their sovereignty. Wrap it all up in a feel-good platitude of nonsense not based in reality with labels and slogans. Manufacture guilt trips for those who oppose the disastrous robbing and mismanagement.

When it all collapses, pretend to be dumbfounded as to the result.