When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton wryly replied, “because that’s where the money is.”
I guess one could ask these money strapped candidates, who have foreclosures on their houses, unpaid bills, evictions and bankruptcies, why they want the school board positions. The answer, under truth serum, might be, “because that’s where the money is, fool.”
Detroilet will never pull itself from the abyss by setting itself up for failure over and over and over again.
63 are running for positions-
- 12 candidates filed for bankruptcy.
- 13 candidates lost properties for failing to pay taxes or mortgages, or are facing liens for unpaid income taxes.
- 28 candidates were sued for unpaid bills and defaulted or agreed to make payments.
Yes, let’s put them in positions of power where there are “opportunities” that so many before them have taken advantage of.
Is this the best Detroit has to offer?
Of course not! The best Detroit has to offer is the Red Wings.
No one does a credit check on these people?
Oh, what am I saying!
I got a say I know a lot of people in the same position. People that use to be successful. I constantly chase dollars to pay my bills. Sign of the Obama times.
Didn’t Detroit have a school super that was totally illiterate a couple years back?
You get the government you deserve.
What is the point of a (well paid) school board when nobody on it can read, write or do basic mathematics?
I have met people over the years whose goal was to get a government job. Good benefits, and you’re certain to keep it as long as you want it.
The crazy thing is that I have friends who think that private businesses are amoral, money-grubbing entities seeking profit over people (including anyone who works for them), yet somehow think that people who work for the government care about the interest of others. Never ceases to amaze me.
It could be worse…a dozen of the recently arrived muslime “refugees” could be running. Wouldn’t THAT be special?
From the article: “One candidate had trouble paying his bills, but that’s not all. Townsend, a teachers aide at Trix Performance Academy, a Detroit K-8 charter school in the state’s Education Achievement Authority district, was ticketed twice for soliciting prostitution.”
You can’t make this stuff up! Trix Performance Academy? Soliciting Prostitution??? LOL!
@left coast Dan
Thank goodness that those government employees eschewed the iPhones, firearms and vehicles that immoral private industry created. Hopefully they knew better than to eat in a restaurant, buy clothing, a computer, a home built by taxpayers, or even a screwdriver. Honestly. I worked for my state’s DMV before I was in high school, before I was even old enough to have a drivers license. Early on it became apparent that I was surrounded by the unaccomplished and losers.
Deetroit has a 25% graduation rate, 47% of Deetroiters are Illiterate…And boy oh boy do they get pissed when Whitey gets involved in skool business per state law..
Sounds like the current Jacksonville FL school board, 16 agitators to the Superintendent, paid $45k a year, none could pass a drug or credit check and oversee students with the worst FCAT and SAT scores in the entire world.