Harbinger of doom?

Is the sad tale of Detroit the harbinger of things to come in the 'progressive' West?

Tim Blair –, Wednesday, August, 07, 2013, (1:26pm)

“In the city of Detroit, 47 percent of adults are functionally illiterate,” reports Katie Pavlich. “Students in Detroit’s public school system have a higher chance of going to prison than they do of graduating high school.” The doomed city’s problems start at the top:

Just a few years ago, now former president of the school board Otis Mathis, fondled himself during a public meeting. Naturally, his inappropriate behavior was defended by a school board colleague who argued Mathis, 55-years-old at the time, was simply a “naive young man” about appropriate behavior.

 There’s also the small matter of Mathis’s own functional illiteracy. Following is an email from the former president of Detroit’s school board:

 If you saw Sunday’s Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason’s he gave for closing school to many empty seats.