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

By: Max Power

Max Power — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:03:45 +0000

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

By: CTrees

CTrees — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:31:42 +0000

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

By: jb

jb — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:13:17 +0000

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

By: Base of the Pillar

Base of the Pillar — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:00:07 +0000

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.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:48:20 +0000

From his rescission of his letter of resignation:

"I take full responsibility for my actions."

A phrase that used to mean something.

By: Rougman

Rougman — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:06:22 +0000

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.

By: Norm Pattis

Norm Pattis — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:35:07 +0000

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

By: Ancel De Lambert

Ancel De Lambert — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:32:51 +0000

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