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Prez Of Detroit Public Schools Can't Write A Coherent Sentence
The president of the Detroit Public Schools (DPS), Otis Mathis, is
condemned to "waging a legal battle to steer the academic future of
90,000 children, in the nation's lowest-achieving big city district,"
without himself having the basic English language skills that
would make his job a whole lot easier. Mr.Mathis "acknowledges he has difficulty
composing a coherent English sentence". Unlike many of his
counterparts, Mathis never had the possibility to address his
deficits in even a moderately rigorous educational environment. He got
through college by simply waiting out the system until the graduation
requirement for minimal English competence was dropped. The following
is an example of one of his emails to colleagues...
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03 2010
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