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Detroit Kids Fail Test:Parents Call for Teachers To Be Jailed

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Standardized testing has a lot of opponents, from parents to teachers who are concerned about children only learning some crucial things only to pass the testing. 

However, kids in the Detroit area got the lowest scores on that testing in the Nation.  While this could make anyone a bit upset, the parents chose to take a different route in lieu of extra teaching, or even tutoring.  In a quote from DetNews (a Detroit News website):

Sharlonda Buckman, CEO of the Detroit Parent Network, called for jailing and civil lawsuits against anyone in the city’s educational system that is not doing his or her share to help properly educate children.

"Somebody needs to go to jail," she said in a tearful address to 500 parents gathered Saturday for the organization’s annual breakfast forum. "Somebody needs to pay for this. Somebody needs to go to jail, and it shouldn’t be the kids."

While okay, it’s fine that she wants better education for children, it’s something any parent can agree with.  It’s more the fact that between jail time and class-action lawsuits what Buckman wants is one of the furthest things away from meeting those goals. 

As stretched thin as schools are right now, these could possibly bankrupt them. Even if it didn’t put the financial strain on the system- what would it solve?

Perhaps this is simply another case of irresponsibility all around.  Parents not helping children with homework, no one noticing that a child may need more help.  According to Tonya Allen, who is another member of the group calling for lawsuits and jail time, “"No other city in the history of this test has done this bad".  The group is in agreement that the children aren’t at fault and that it is in fact the teachers who need to pay up, somehow.

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