Half of Detroit can not Read

You read that correctly, half of a whole major city can not read. Here is the article. I don’t think much needs to be said about this.  I always thought that public education was bad, but think it was this bad.  If someone wants to understand how education was purposely corrupted at the beggining of the 20th century see here and here.

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