Federal judge says students have no right to literacy, dismisses lawsuit

[DonViejo]

By Associated Press | Posted: Sun 7:31 PM, Jul 01, 2018

DETROIT (AP) (07/01/18)- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit focused on the poor reading skills of students at several Detroit schools, including because he concluded there is no right to literacy.

Judge Stephen Murphy III agreed in his 40-page ruling that "when a child who could be taught to read goes untaught, the child suffers a lasting injury - and so does society." But he added it still doesn't follow that literacy is a right. Murphy's written ruling was posted late Friday in U.S. District Court for eastern Michigan.

The lawsuit filed in 2016 argued the schools are in "slum-like conditions" and "functionally incapable of delivering access to literacy."

It accused Gov. Rick Snyder, the state school board and others of violating the civil rights of low-income students.

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http://www.abc12.com/content/news/-Federal-judge-says-students-have-no-right-to-literacy-487069441.html

[RKP5637]

1. Hence in some areas we have US equals United Stupidity! n/t

[muntrv]

2. Apparently clean water is not a right either under Rick Snyder. Ask Flint, MI.

[brush]

3. On board the trump train: Judge codifies inadequate education...

too much of that and future trumps won't get elected.

[SamKnause]

4. The fucking country is insane !!!!!!

[bettyellen]

6. In a NY ruling, the judge said something about society also needing burger flippers. Fuck that judge

[GeorgeGist]

5. Republican aka

Asshole

[Cha]

7. Well, that headline is a Fucking Fascist's

dream.

[Thomas Hurt]

8. Un-democratize education, even with its warts, and you return us to the elitism of nobility...

only the rich will get an education, more ignorance, more gullibility, easier to exploit and oppress the people.

[appalachiablue]

17. +1

[LakeArenal]

9. It's so blatant and obvious.

The 30% eat it up.

[procon]

10. Another milestone in the plot to eliminate the national education system.

If "there is no right to literacy," then what is the point of education? Without an education mandate, no schools are needed and therefore students become just a large mass of untapped child laborers.

[appalachiablue]

18. Correct

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Well, sounds like they need to continue building the Republican base, any way they can.

[Hortensis]

12. Clear indicator of how they think.

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Our liberal founding fathers understood that representative government requires an educated electorate. We won most of the opening battles in this ongoing ideological war, and we've won most ever since.

Note, if there is no right to literacy, what duty do we have to provide universal education,. much less to make both attending and paying for it mandatory?

[struggle4progress]

13. "The President who appointed me was illiterate too! So suck it up!"

[Lars39]

14. So how much stock does he own in charter schools and prisons?

[appalachiablue]

19. $$$ Lots of future income from private school students and free labor inmates

[bigbrother05]

15. Fits in with the DeVos Dept of Ed

Pay us to warehouse the kids until they age out of the system.

You'll have to pay extra for real education.

Many charter/private schools can't get accreditation and often hire uncredentialed teachers.

[Hekate]

16. KnR