Back in the 60’s, the big draw of Dearborn was that the schools were quite good. I suppose they still are, comparatively speaking.
Henry Ford was a union buster. They pushed him out of his own business because of that. Ironically, it’s come full circle, and if he were here today, he’d say I told you so.
Didn’t know about the public schools. Dearborn also had a very good public library. Also some good restaurants and decent, middle-class neighborhoods.
I also grew up in Dearborn and my dad worked at Ford. Later in life I wound up teaching in Detroit. Signs of decay were all around back then. I understand that about 10 years ago, a philanthropist offered something like 200 million dollars to establish charter schools in Detroit. But Gov. Grandholm and the teachers union rejected the offer because he wasn’t going to require teachers to belong to the union.
Sad to say that the city is going down; not even a good man like Dave Bing can save it.