{"id":187246,"date":"2013-05-02T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/02\/in-a-rare-bit-of-honesty\/"},"modified":"2013-05-02T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T01:59:00","slug":"in-a-rare-bit-of-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/02\/in-a-rare-bit-of-honesty\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Rare Bit of Honesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Roberts the retiring emergency manager appointed to run the Detroit public schools, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20130502\/NEWS01\/305020059\/Detroit-Public-Schools-emergency-manager-Roy-Roberts-to-step-down\">admitted that he was told to destroy the school district when he was selected<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Roberts also told those gathered that when he arrived at DPS, he was told to \u201cblow up\u201d the district and dismantle it, <\/span>[Detroit Federation of Teachers President Keith]<span style=\"color: blue;\"> Johnson said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cBlow it up \u2014 those were his exact words,\u201d Detroit School Board member Tawanna Simpson confirmed. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only the article at the <i>Freep<\/i> has been sanitized and that quote is <b>gone<\/b>.&nbsp; One wonders why.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The above paragraph is still referenced in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>You can still find a similar quote at the story from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20130502\/SCHOOLS\/305020433\/Roy-Roberts-DPS-We-changed-culture-here-\"><i>The Detroit News<\/i><\/a>, as well as some more of the editing funnies engaged in by the <i>Detroit Free Press<\/i> in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclectablog.com\/2013\/05\/detroit-public-schools-emergency-manager-roberts-to-leave-says-he-was-instructed-to-blow-up-dismantle-district.html\">Electablog post<\/a>, which has Roberts acknowledges his statement, but claims that it wasn&#8217;t Governor Rick Snyder who told him this.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Roberts the retiring emergency manager appointed to run the Detroit public schools, has admitted that he was told to destroy the school district when he was selected: Roberts also told those gathered that when he arrived at DPS, he was told to \u201cblow up\u201d the district and dismantle it, [Detroit Federation of Teachers President &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,968,974,1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-education","category-hack-journalism","category-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}