Bobb to parents: Help us help kids

As parents decried the Detroit Public Schools' dismal test scores Saturday, the district's emergency financial manager called on volunteers to spend 100,000 hours teaching students to read.

"Going forward, we have to create a situation where we create a reading revolution in the city of Detroit," DPS Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb told about 300 parents at a breakfast meeting sponsored by a parents group.

Bob talked to the parents about the district's test results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress test, in which Detroit students ranked the lowest in the nation.

Detroit Parent Network Executive Director Sharlonda Buckman said parents should be irate that their tax dollars have had little effect on their children's education.

"They can't read; they can't count!" she yelled to a standing ovation at the Westin Book Cadillac hotel. "It would not be acceptable in any other community! We need to get on board with changing this!"

Bobb said his attempts to rework operations at the school system should be mirrored in the community. Some of the issues contributing to the problem include children living in unsafe neighborhoods, parents with mental health or drug abuse issues and unemployment, he said.

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less than 12 months to do what the FBI couldn't do in TEN YEARS!!!! That tells me, the FBI didn't GIVE A SHIT!!! Calloway was uncovering all kinds of fraudulent activity each and every WEEK and heads were rolling left and right but she STILL didn't get to anywhere NEAR what Bobb found! See, Bobb got off his ass and WENT DOWN TO THESE WAREHOUSES! He went to the schools, looked in supply closets, classrooms and talked to TEACHERS!! He found a woman in the comptrollers dept. office who had been writing 5K checks for a PAINTER for TEN YEARS!!! This man had been contracted ten years PRIOR and they had been splitting the money!!! This man (Bobb) KNOWS WHERE AND HOW TO find embezzlement and fraud and the FBI is supposed to be the BEST at INVESTIGATION!! Ain't that a blip?!!!

I hope each and every last one he catches lands in jail. Corrupt ass people with full access to the money...makes no sense! Glad he's cleaning things up...they can't get rid of him like they got rid of Calloway. I wasn't following her departure all too closely, but I figured she was probably uncovering some misdeeds and things got rough for her.