Detroit 8th Grader Teaches 8th Grade Math

When it comes to upward mobility out of the inner city

Where the quality of schools is in a word too shitty

The tried and true method is high quality education from teachers who know how to teach

And a curriculum that puts the skills needed for a high paying job in reach

It’s bad enough that in cities like Chicago, Detroit and Baltimore

A black student has a great chance of getting shot shortly after leaving his or her front door

If today is his lucky day and the gauntlet of potential violence he or she passes through in one piece

Somehow avoiding a confrontation with the police

The hours spent in class are too often a complete waste of his time

Nothing of value learned, boring beyond belief and moving closer to a path to crime

Our public schools in the inner city have largely the kids and parents failed

While the teachers’ unions and their political puppets fight against tenure and the charter schools tooth and nail

Detroit leads the nation when it comes to failing schools

But also has the second highest percentage of charter schools relying on competition as tool

More and more charters without regard to performance with too many of the for profit mode

Ground zero in terms of basic skills to the tried and true path out of poverty erode

But when in Detroit an 8^th grade teacher frustrated by the conditions in frustration quits

The school administration cannot find a replacement to in his chair sit

In a moment of the blind leading the blind turns to another eighth grader to teach math

No wonder the students in this Detroit school are heading down at flank speed the failure path

We cannot redistribute out of poverty if the size of the pies remains the same pie remains the same

Decades of Blue leadership in our cities for crime and failed schools are largely to blame.

        © September 16, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 
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