ACLU must not have much to do these days
Posted on March 20, 2008
This sounds like a middle school “mock law school” case or something. Bizarre.
ACLU: Dismal High School Graduation Rates Violate Florida Constitution, Says ACLU Lawsuit
Charging that shamefully low high school graduation rates demonstrate a violation of students’ constitutional right to a high quality education, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a first-of-its-kind class action lawsuit today against the Palm Beach County School District. It is estimated that as many as one in three Palm Beach County students does not graduate on time with a regular diploma, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. This case is the first legal challenge in the country that focuses on the issue of low graduation rates and that requires a school district to graduate more of its students.
So, are the teachers’ unions named? No. If the ACLU were serious about this, it would name the unions. For the record, I am not opposed to school districts being sued for abysmal return on our coerced “investment” in government education. However, the unions, who make it possible for ridculously incompetent people to be hired and retained for years as “teachers” and administrators, share a large portion of the blame for the dismal state of American government edjacashun. Of course, the ACLU would never have the stones to take the problem on in an honest way if it means taking on fellow travelers.
Read the complaint and it all becomes clear that the ACLU is just banging pots and pans together. Here is the “logic” behind the ACLU’s claims:
Like many students in the Palm Beach County school district, plaintiff Thomas Schroeder is having academic problems and is being subjected to school discipline concerning attendance. Because Thomas is a students at William T. Dwyer High School in Palm Beach County school district and, because the district fails to graduate a very significant percentage of its students every year, Thomas is not receiving a uniform, efficient, safe, secure and high quality education.
Um, yeah. Looks like a chronically-truant deliquent is taking the ACLU’s assist in shifting personal and family responsibility. So it’s the school district’s fault if this kid doesn’t graduate? Why not sue the parents? Most of the other plaintiffs who are seeking to represent “classes” of students don’t look much better.
Natch, the ACLU lights the race-hatred fire. I still haven’t figured out who the ACLU is accusing of the “racism” that is apparently to blame for lower graduation rates among minorities. Don’t misunderstand: the state of the goverment educational establishment in minority areas is criminal…and IS a civil rights issue perpetrated and perpetuated by the Left. But the ACLU suit is merely seeking a court order to increase graduation rates. It’s pretty easy to see how bloody worthless that would be. It wouldn’t take much for these school to magically “improve” the “graduation” rates.
How about instead of filing worthless lawsuits like this, STOP filing lawsuits to prevent school choice. In Arizona, the ACLU filed a ludicrous lawsuit (got smacked down at the district court level), which actually argues that the possibility of PARENTS, who receive TAX CREDITS to pay for THEIR OWN KIDS’ tuition to private schools, may CHOOSE (for their own kid, no one else’s) a private religious school, amounts to a violation of the Establishment Clause. They have another AZ suit that would prevent DISABLED kids from receiving vouchers because of the possibility that the parents may choose to choose a religious school. Finally, the ACLU attacked a corporate tax credit system in AZ because…do I even need to say?
THAT is the ACLU’s agenda. Drink it in. This new lawsuit…why did the ACLU even file it?
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Thanks for writing this one. You read my mind. I was thinking of using a very similar title as a matter of fact.
Seriously, wouldn’t a low grad rate actually make a case that the education is STRONGER (therefore harder to obtain) than weaker?
You are right, the ACLU is obviously asking that the standards be lowered
Years ago I recall a family that sued (successfully) some town because their kid ended up with a diploma -their argument -he’s a dummy that knows nothing.
I always thought that that’s a fair way to attack the NEA and their robots who substitute propaganda for education.
A fifty year old curriculum is all the evidence you’ll need to convict.
Now there’s an idea. Lawsuits to raise graduation rates!
I wonder — as a teacher, can i sue students who don’t do homework, disrupt class, or fail to make minimal academic progress in my class?
Can I sue parents who don’t return phone calls, who call the school to complain about the enforcement of reasonable academic and behavioral expectations, or who tell their children that they don’t have to obey rules and instructions that they don’t wish to follow?
Heck — this litigation thing might do wonders to raise graduation rates!