Judge: Students Have No Right to
Literacy
A federal
judge late Friday ruled that students at several Detroit schools have no legal
right to literacy, dismissing a lawsuit filed in 2016 that took issue with the
schools’ “slum-like conditions.” Judge Stephen Murphy III, in U.S. District
Court in eastern Michigan, conceded in his 40-page ruling that “when a child
who could be taught to read goes untaught, the child suffers a lasting
injury—and so does society.” Despite this, he concluded that literacy is not a
right and threw out the suit, which had been filed by Los Angeles-based law
firm Public Counsel on behalf of Detroit students.--from the 'Daily Beast'
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