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Functionally Illiterate Public Masturbator Fails to Improve Detroit's 25% Graduation Rate

Jun 18, 2010
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Politics & Current Events

What, you want more? I pretty much gave it all away in the title of the post.

Otis Mathis masturbates in public, is unable to write coherent and grammatical English sentences, and is the President of the School Board in the district with the worst graduation rate in the United States.

These things just may be related.

I don't think there's anything wrong with Detroit's kids, as opposed to their environment. I do think there's something wrong with the political culture of schools, and school districts, and local governments that elevate a the likes of Otis Mathis, probably because he knows the right people. There's something wrong with the culture that promotes the defiantly protected sinecures of educators over the actual education of children.

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  1. Ancel De Lambert  •  Jun 18, 2010 @10:32 pm

    The teacher's union really should go belly-up already.

  2. Norm Pattis  •  Jun 19, 2010 @7:35 am

    Ouch. I graduated from Detroit's Denby High School a long time ago. Reading this made me feel lucky to have escaped the city

  3. Rougman  •  Jun 19, 2010 @4:06 pm

    I'm glad you didn't mention that the students in Detroit that have yet to drop out score lower on standardized tests than those in any other urban school district in America. 'Cause that would be piling on.

    That all this can be accomplished by the Detroit Public Schools while maintaining a $200 million budget deficit is pure gravy.

  4. Patrick  •  Jun 20, 2010 @10:48 am

    From his rescission of his letter of resignation:

    "I take full responsibility for my actions."

    A phrase that used to mean something.

  5. Base of the Pillar  •  Jun 20, 2010 @2:00 pm

    I recall Janet Reno using those words post-Waco. She served out Clinton's term. I guess Galileo might have taken it seriously so I'm not sure where in the intervening two thousand years things went awry.

  6. jb  •  Jun 20, 2010 @7:13 pm

    Base of the Pillar,
    I didn't know it was the year 3600.

  7. CTrees  •  Jun 21, 2010 @4:31 am

    By Galileo, he meant Jesus. Sheesh, way to nitpick.

  8. Max Power  •  Jun 21, 2010 @9:03 am

    Maybe Base of the Pillar went to school in Detroit? ZING!