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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Schools Matter: Detroit Schools Emergency Mismanager Bobb Continues to Do a Heckuva Job

Schools Matter: Detroit Schools Emergency Mismanager Bobb Continues to Do a Heckuva Job

Detroit Schools Emergency Mismanager Bobb Continues to Do a Heckuva Job

Eli Broad's corrupt stooge in charge of Detroit Schools, Robert Bobb, continues his dismantling of Detroit's public schools per oligarch instructions, with a strategy that could not be clearer: provide a breathtaking level of planned incompetence and draconian policies that 1) destroys confidence in the public governance of schools, 2) scares away all students from the system whose parents have resources to make another choice, 3) blows up the debt through accelerated loss of students to unsustainable proportions, which is then used to justify all sorts of curriculum and teacher/admin/aide cutting, salary and benefit reductions, and union smashing.

Once that process is completed, the remaining pockets of impoverished children will be turned over to the hedge funders' corporate charter CEOs to manage with behavioral and psychological sterilization plans borrowed from the KIPP and Uncommon Schools chains. This is modern day eugenics plain and simple.

Below is part of the story told by Michael Winerip of the Times as only Michael can