State can't "afford" to pay Detroit teachers past June 30, 90 schools protest

[valet]

Long story short. The State basically want to change the school district. And basically refusing to fund schools until they get their way. Teachers who spread their pay out all year won't get their money they're suppose to get. Once school is out in June teachers are screwed. I'm not a teacher but work for the school district. I have a 2nd job so this won't effect me

DETROIT (WXYZ) - More than 90 Detroit Public Schools are closed Monday due to teacher sick-outs after Detroit Federation of Teachers interim President Ivy Bailey called for them on Sunday afternoon.

The reason, according to Bailey, is because the district does not have enough money to pay teachers after June 30.

CLICK HERE FOR A LIST OF ALL SCHOOL CLOSINGS.

The shortage affects teachers who decided to have their paycheck spread out over a 52-week span and continue to receive paychecks during the summer.

We're told the teachers will be rallying at the Fisher Building in Detroit this morning and plan to vote this week on whether to strike.

 

[Kane1]

They SCREWING over teachers now



Wouldn't raise my kids up there to save my life

 

[valet]

If you're not creating tax makers, then you're an enemy of the State. School system is viewed as a failure, creating tax takers. Thus the war.

 

[Big D Bangston]

Damn shame

 

[jerniebert]

Is going on in Michigan. Who's running that state and what they got against the citizens of that state? You can't just keep treating people like shyt.

 

[ben anderson]

Michigan is such a piece of fukking shyt state lmao. Drove thru there on a road trip and I would honestly blow my brain out if I had to live there. Whenever I go out of state, and I come back home I realize how great of a state Maryland is. Especially for black people. Inb4 someone brings up Baltimore.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Is going on in Michigan. Who's running that state and what they got against the citizens of that state? You can't just keep treating people like shyt.

A fiscal republican that ran Gateway into the ground that won because his opponent was torn down as a "career politician" even though it prolly makes sense to have experience in the "career" of politics. Not to mention nikkas and the big population centers refuse to go out and vote in midterm elections....


Oh and emergency manager laws.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Detroit is such a piece of fukking shyt state lmao. Drove thru there on a road trip and I would honestly blow my brain out if I had to live there. Whenever I go out of state, and I come back home I realize how great of a state Maryland is. Especially for black people. Inb4 someone brings up Baltimore.

1. Detroit isn't a state.

2. I love living here, I always got shyt to do. The people here are awesome, then again I'm post-college and have a decent gig. The place is fukked for if you aren't educated.

3. Maryland IS a great state for black folks. I like it there too. But I think the issue that Michigan has is that the governors gave NO incentive for Macomb or Oakland or Wasthenaw county to help out Wayne county through trade and regional transport. People are quick to blame Detroit as if its in a vacuum but really one of the biggest issues was he fact that Michigan legislature treated it like an island for the better part of 50-60 years.

 

[ben anderson]

1. Detroit isn't a state.

2. I love living here, I always got shyt to do. The people here are awesome, then again I'm post-college and have a decent gig. The place is fukked for if you aren't educated.

3. Maryland IS a great state for black folks. I like it there too. But I think the issue that Michigan has is that the governors gave NO incentive for Macomb or Oakland or Wasthenaw county to help out Wayne county through trade and regional transport. People are quick to blame Detroit as if its in a vacuum but really one of the biggest issues was he fact that Michigan legislature treated it like an island for the better part of 50-60 years.

Crazy how I edited Michigan right before you quoted me

 

[Easy-E]

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

This isn't normal and I really think all this fukk shyt happens by design. the people in office are not people they are fukking crooks.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Crazy how I edited Michigan right before you quoted me

The thing is the rest of Michigan outside of the black bastions of Detroit, Flint, Saginaw and Benton Harbor are perfectly fine.

Ann Arbor is home to one of the best hospitals and schools in the entire nation. Oakland county (which shares a border with Detroit for like 15 miles) is one of the richest per square mile in the nation. The entirety of the Upper Peninsula is surprisingly solvent, Grand Rapids is doing better than ever and kids in Kalamazoo, if they graduate from KPS get to go to college within the state basically for free.

Michigan is cool...but if you are black and born in a big city ur prolly fukked.

 

[DrX]

Michigan is such a piece of fukking shyt state lmao. Drove thru there on a road trip and I would honestly blow my brain out if I had to live there. Whenever I go out of state, and I come back home I realize how great of a state Maryland is. Especially for black people. Inb4 someone brings up Baltimore.

Pa, Ohio and NY are just as bad...blacks r disenfranchised

 

[valet]

The thing is the rest of Michigan outside of the black bastions of Detroit, Flint, Saginaw and Benton Harbor are perfectly fine.

Ann Arbor is home to one of the best hospitals and schools in the entire nation. Oakland county (which shares a border with Detroit for like 15 miles) is one of the richest per square mile in the nation. The entirety of the Upper Peninsula is surprisingly solvent, Grand Rapids is doing better than ever and kids in Kalamazoo, if they graduate from KPS get to go to college within the state basically for free.

Michigan is cool...but if you are black and born in a big city ur prolly fukked.

I heard that Grand Rapids school system is messed though.

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

Crazy shyt like this can happen in a country like America
We got billions for bombs, can bail out crooked bankers but teachers have to go through this