Detroit schools are closing because it’s just time, heck it’s BEEN time. The people have given up on having schools. Those pictures didn’t happen over night. The whole city looks like Dresden after WWII. Some glorious properties and sites have turned to trash. I’d say it started with that wall back in the 1940s. Hatred. Anger. Ambivalence. Race riots of the 60s. (I’ve heard that some of the charter schools have done well.)
Many schools and communities in the state are in trouble mostly because of the loss of auto industry jobs and taxes along with the mistake of thinking the factories, and the employees, would pay those taxes forever. Some cities gave HUGE incentive packages to the industry and now all that’s there are huge buildings taking up property space. Retirees don’t pay as much in taxes. The Detroit side of the state put all of its eggs in one basket.
What is weird is you look through the pictures of interiors of office buildings, schools, hospitals etc and it is like one day they fled for their lives before the plague was going to arrive the next day. Stuff was just left there.
Looks a bit like the photos in Chernobyl after the people fled.
As a son and grandson of American Indians we see the same problem on reservations as there is in Detroit. Socialist politicians promising utopia for the last 60 years and hellholes is all they return. All the while they live in walled off and gated communities with their private schools to avoid the evil they created.
Myself and family never looked into that crystal ball of welfare slavery. We own products, trademarks and live & love each day in the best country God ever allowed to exist.
It begins and ends with Blacks coming to the party. America in 2011 and for at least a few generations has been wide open to all races. ALL. Forget about the past.
I worked for a minority owned construction company in detroit....bid on some of the finest school buildings one can dream up or imagine...detroit schools have some of the finest buildings that money can buy.....and graduation rates up there in the high 20% range....now I wonder what is wrong there??? Bob Bobb has been the best thing to happen to detroit schools, and has been fought every step of the way by a corrupt school board and teachers union. He is leaving when his contract is up. This will be a sad day for detroit when he goes...