This is what you get when you "Ask for the Union label"!!!

No problem.....Send them to Florida,they can become voters / politicians.

NYC gets the most school aid from demonrat Cuomo. Union cost = $20,000+ per student. If Cuomo had any care for students, he´d give that $20,000 to parents for private education because public education is worthless.

Dumberg should be proud.He must be celebrating with a 32 oz. Coke.

They call this "fresh Democrat voters."

Why are they going o college?

Welcome to the Liberal vision of a dumbed-down drag and drop culture of hacked-up, cut and paste Left-wing, society Gurus that manufacture attention deficit riddled, Adderall addicted, self-absorbed, functionally illiterate, uninformed Ignorami that can barely a handle sound bite over 30 seconds in length that don´t rhyme, let alone a history class spanning 30 minutes. They may not be able to read, but hey, at least they´re Politically Correct!

But I´ll bet their self esteem is over the top

They can´t read or write but you cannot believe how they can recycle trash and save the world from weather.

This is what the Dems have always aimed for.

This is why the Pre-Civil War South made it illegal to teach slaves to read.

Illiterates are controllable. Liberal edifices of education teach those in them to be slaves for the elite.

Good summary, #7.

The D quality education aligns perfectly with the Democrat indoctrination that had been burned into their foreheads. After being nurtured through the larval stage with their hats on sideways and their saggy pants hanging below the great divide they will live forever as slaves of the socialist Democrat welfare state. The union is happy and the state is happy. D+D = D+.

Very misleading headline. There is a huge difference between not being able to read and not being ready for college freshman English.

If that were the standard, then no schoolchild is capable of ´reading´ until they pass the required tests as they graduate from high school. But wait a minute! Those tests are written, so if they are taking tests, then they must be able to read, isn´t that correct?

I saw Sotomayor with CNN´s xxx touring a NYC school in the Bronx that Sotomayor had gone to as a child. It was being closed for financial reasons by the Catholic School System. Kids were crying and Sotomayor was sad it was closing. She said the school was needed as a learning space and a safe space from drugs and violence. Really? Did it ever dawn on her that the Public Schools weren´t giving that? And why not?

Are liberals really that blind? Are they willfully blind? I think so. Are they ignorant? Certainly. Are they stupid? Well, yes. Even at the upper levels of liberalism, they are low-information types. And they are breeding and cultivating many more low-information types (for reasons stated above). The public schools are the problem! The Unions are the problem! Sotomayor never saw the obvious: Vouchers. Either unknowingly (low-information) or knowingly (bordering on criminality and definately hypocritical).

It is becoming more obvious to the American people that liberalism is a mental disease.

Mayor Blooming-idiot is blaming movie trailers for making us more stupid. (his words)

But learning about sex in kindergarten is their "right".

And the other 20% are illiterate.

Hopefully Department of Education sequester cuts aren´t too bad or things could get worse /s

I live this each school day. I teach at a community college in North Carolina. My students in developmental reading and English find a full-page article challenging. Writing a paragraph or 250 word essay might as well be a command to climb Mt. Everest. These are America´s low information voters. Because today´s students have access to the Internet, they believe they don´t need developmental classes; they just need to Google for what is necessary. Students look at the pieces, and for the life of them they can´t see the mosaic. But never fear, many "new" educational fads are on the way which, of course, means someone somewhere needs more money to burn.

Our kids and grand kids are avid readers and borrow books from our extensive library all of the time. Then, they recommend good books to their cousins who read with great vigor so they canall discuss together. We read scriptures together every day with our children and they continue the tradition. Most learned to read before entering first grade. The know the names and circumstances of every noble and ignoble contained in scriptures. Smarties!

Up here in MA I started to think that was the goal of my son´s school system. I live in an upper-middle class suburb of boston, ma and the people who could afford to, sent their children to private schools. The rest hired tutors and worked with their children. Meanwhile, the highly educated teachers/administers of the schools nattered on about graduating a student with good self-esteem but unable to read, write or do arithmetic.

The common denominator of every school district managed by Democrats. But, if only they had more funding............

Name me one good, service, product, ...anything where unionizing the workforce had resulted in any sort of improvement.

Posters #7 & 19 really nailed it. And with the other side´s mastery of all the computer stuff it would seem that we have reached the point of a permanent socialist voting majority.

The 2014 midterms are going to re-define the entire political landscape. The young and the idiots are going to be turned out in unprecedented numbers to take the House back for the Dems. And that will be The End.

Write me off as a grumpy old man if you wish, but I don´t see any alternative scenario coming out of our present situation.