Detroit Public Schools No Longer Preparing Kids For College, Instead Some Are Being Prepped For Cosmetology, Culinary Arts

On Monday I wrote a post in response to an AP article in the Detroit News that lamented the effect, but skipped the cause, of the plight of Detroit in general, and the children of the D in particular (AP Laments Detroit's Plight, Ignores That It Has Been Under Democrat Rule For 50 Years. Misery Is Not A Bug, It's A Feature!!!). I glossed over one aspect of the article thinking that it was worthy of its own post. You see, in DPS only 1 in 4 children graduate high school, and those 25% that do survive are likely in no shape for college anyway. Such is the result, by design, of Democrat hegemonic domination over the last 50 years. It is so bad in DPS that the school system has given up college prep altogether without telling anyone. So how do we know? Turns out that some kids that can't cut in in DPS get sent over to an academy called Detroit Cares. Here's the relevant snippets from the AP piece on this academy:

Until a few months ago, Detroit Cares was known as the Last Chance Academy for students who failed in traditional school settings. The privately run academy, under contract with Detroit Public Schools, receives its funding from the district. Traditional courses are taught alongside cosmetology, building trades and culinary arts.

Detroit high school students historically have done poorly on standardized tests. For example, 32 percent of 11th-graders met or exceeded reading standards and only 14 percent did the same in math on the 2007 Michigan Merit Examination. Statewide averages were 60 percent in reading and 47 percent in math.

..."I don't think college preparation is the cornerstone of Detroit Public Schools anymore," said Sheffield, the founder and chief executive of Detroit Cares. "The vast majority of these kids are looking for a high school diploma and to get jobs."

There we have it. DPS officials have waved the white flag of surrender on college prep. As I have alluded to many times on this blog, this is no accident. IT IS BY DESIGN! For Democrats to maintain their hegemonic domination, misery must be the order of the day. Keeping the population in misery starts with the children and is an integral function of DPS. After graduation, if that ever happens, poverty is in order. In addition, DPS spends its time instilling the victim mentality in students from an early age. Thus, when they find themselves hopeless after going through Democrat-run public schools, in a Democrat-run city with no jobs, they feel perfectly within their rights to entitlements. Lots of them. In perpetuity. It does come at a price though. To keep the system going, they have to continue to vote Democrats into office by wide margins - the same Democrats directly responsible for their misery. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding as Detroit is the most liberal city judged by its voting record:

2008 General Election results-DEM: 96.93% GOP: 2.65%
2006 General Election results-DEM: 95.05% GOP: 4.33%
2004 General Election results-DEM: 93.61% GOP: 5.93%

The Stockholm Syndrome on a massive societal scale. I have pointed this out several times before, but it's worth repeating yet again. One of my all-time favorite movies of all time is The Shawshank Redemption. In it, Morgan Freeman, aka "Red", coined the term when prisoners become dependent on the prison system and can no longer survive without it - institutionalized. One of the older prisoners, Brooks, was willing to kill to stay in the system as he knew nothing else after so many years. Yet they let him out and he promptly hung himself. He was institutionalized. The Democrats have institutionalizing the black population in this country, no different than slave masters did many decades ago. The same party that fought for slavery, not against it, segregated schools and filibustered the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 now has shackled the black population to another form of slavery - slavery to the state. Stripped naked of their dignity, their hope and their self-reliance. Thus you get sad situations like this, a result of Democrat education:

The entire situation just breaks my heart.

Previously:
AP Laments Detroit's Plight, Ignores That It Has Been Under Democrat Rule For 50 Years. Misery Is Not A Bug, It's A Feature!!!
Detroit Public Schools Classroom Stuffing Today With Raffle For 52" Plasma tv, Laptop, To Artificially Inflate Student Enrollment Number
What's the worst school district in the nation to do? Why celebrate of course!
Detroit Public Schools leaves personal information of 20,000 children open to the public in abandoned building!
Culture of corruption: more embezzlement charges against Detroit Public Schools workers
More DPS Corruption: Audit Uncovers Dead People Getting Health Care, Motorcycles and Missing Weapons!
DPS Vacates 2,600 Jobs, Unions up In Arms (Again)
Far from it: DPS no longer a "first class" district
Inept DPS Board Of Education Still At War Against Reform
DPS Board That Oversaw Only 1 In 4 Students Graduate To Sue For Academic Control Of District
DPS Privatizing Some Failing Schools. Why Not Just Privatize All Of Them Already?
Detroit Public Schools Considering Bankruptcy. Would Be The First Of Its Kind
DPS - $430 million in deficit - try to trim workforce. Get pushback from teacher union
DPS Layoffs Increase To 2,500. Still Not Enough; Bankruptcy Soon?
DPS to cut 1,900 jobs, still in deficit. To Robert Bobb: "MR. MANAGER - TEAR DOWN THIS DISTRICT!"
Detroit Public Schools, $430 million in deficit, finds it has 257 "ghosts" on the payroll
How does a DPS budget deficit that started at $140 million get "whittled down" to $243 million?
Non-surprise: DPS deficit grows to $430 million
Audit: 97.4% of DPS schools can't keep track of funds
DPS In A Nutshell: Fixing That Which Is Beyond Repair, Ignoring Newer Cheaper Better Alternative
Detroit Free Press Pens Hit Piece On Charter Schools
Bob^2 wants to fix DPS, gets attacked, MSM yawns
Bob^2 Coming Down On DPS Corruption
Bob^2: Stay in DPS! Parents: No Way!
Bob^2: DPS The Greatest Challenge Of All
Freep's Mike Thompson Doesn't Get It
The DPS Special Treatment Act
Detroit News: DPS FAIL!!!
The freep Laments DPS School Closings
DPS in the News
DPS Officials Thumbing Their Noses at Bob^2?
The DPS Debacle Continues
Less Than 12 Hours Later, The DPS Fighting Begins
Oh SNAP! DPS now $306 million in the hole!
DPS to Granholm: "Uh - Now What Do We Do?"
Bob^2 to teach DPS about Corruption
DPS: "Hey buddy, can you spare $162 Million?"
Bob^2 Trying to Drain DPS Swamp
DPS may owe $36 million more
More on DPS - None of It Good
Shock! - Ex-DPS official files federal whistleblower lawsuit
Bob^2, DPS to Get Undeserved Windfall
Throwing money into the DPS hole
Bob^2 starts tally of DPS troubles
Bob^2 says: DPS deficit larger than thought
Bob Bobb (Bob^2) on a mission to save DPS
Non-Shocker of the Morning - Former DPS Head Calloway: Detroit School Board Corrupt!
DetNews: Bring 'Marine Corps' of teachers to Detroit schools
DPS to good teachers - GET OUT OF OUR SWAMP!!!
Duh! - DPS fails kids, fed school chief says