Pawn shop stimulus in Detroit
Old Trooper sent us a link to Detroit public school’s 40,000 laptops to be injected into the economy thanks to your tax dollars and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
That’s what under-educated kids need – their own computer to abuse. It seems to me that a kid who can’t read or write is just fascinated by the flashing lights and sounds that emanate from the computer. Garbage in, garbage out. I guess that’s why I’m not a teacher.
It’s funny how I figured out how to use this blasted machine with my public school education. I’ll bet most of you did the same without a minute in a classroom. The difference between us and them is that our teachers weren’t distracted by machinery that would cover up their shortcomings.
The closest thing to a computer I ever touched was one of those high-tech IBM Selectric typewriters in my typing class (Ronnie Stirpe and I were the only guys in the class, that’s why we took it…and the reason it was the only class I failed in high school).
Oh, where do the pawn shops come in? Well, a Detroit TEACHER tried to pawn her computer right before Christmas;
The DPS Office of the Inspector General investigation said Karen Drysdale-Oriucci, a DPS teacher since 1994, went to American Jewelry and Loan on Greenfield Road on Wednesday to pawn the netbook computer she received from the district on Dec. 17.
Store staff refused to pay the teacher for the netbook –- which is engraved with the DPS “I’m In” logo on its cover -– instead confiscating it and contacting DPS officials.
Drysdale-Oriucci was suspended Thursday with pay, pending a disciplinary hearing.
Yup she received it on December 17th and busted her ass getting to the nearest pawn shop. Now she’s suspended WITH PAY. Think this will slow down the district’s plan to hand out 40,000 more computers and peripherals?
Category: Schools
Way up in #17 joe said what they think and how wrong they are- that they’ll see the invest we’ve made— that works in public housing, food stamps, etc etc. NOOOO people are not made that way, not rich people, not poor people- NO people. we DON’T appreciate what is handed to us. ever.
#19 “you guys are willing to consign…” I AM NOT WILLING. I think I speak for the crowd. THE DETROIT (CLEVELAND, LORAIN, CINCINNATI, PITTSBURG, LA, DALLAS….) PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM has consigned them to second class status. They collect their checks and deem their citizenry uneducable. They get in their toyotas and drive to the suburbs and leave the students to their ghettos. THAT is real love, aint’ it?
I, for one, love America, and would like all citizens to be educated- black, brown, etc etc etc. But when something is not working– it’s not working.
and the detroit school system IS NOT WORKING.
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Understood, and I believe we both at least agree that the best way to handle most problems in a community is at the lowest practical level. The Federal Government generally need not apply. 🙂
“And don’t say it’s the fault of unions”. Screw you, Joey. A large part of the fault does, in fact, lie with the unions. When GM was paying janitors $30/hour to push a broom, with full benefits, and others more money to not work any harder than they were required by union contract, it is, indeed, the fault of both management and union.
As for “having it out for Detroit”, yeah, I do. It is and has been, since the days of Coleman Young, a millstone around the neck of the rest of Michigan. The only sucking sound in this state is our tax money being flushed down the toilet that is Detroit. Hell, up until last year, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra got a state supplement to their budget, as did the Detroit Zoo. Kindly tell me why a citizen who lives in Gladwin, or Marquette, or Newberry has to send some of his money to Detroit?
The ghost towns in this state are all along the I-75 corridor. What do they all have in common? They were all union towns, built on the backs of GM, incompetently run into the ground by dems. Lansing has so far escaped that fate, because it’s the seat of state government and a few GM plants. But, Virg Bernero is still trying to live up to the legacy of Coleman Young.