“But where do bad schools come from exactly?”
Bad people, of course.
Bad teacher unions, bad administrators, bad funding schemes that kickback money to politicians. And of course bad parents who are absentee and don’t domesticate their children.
But, SO WHAT. It doesn’t change the facts that the schools, right now, are BAD. (And, quite frankly, the people left are the ‘bad’ ones. Good teachers, administrators, and parents will have gotten the heck out of there by now).
By looking for causes, you are really looking for solutions. I stated right out of the gate that I didn’t have any solutions. My treatise is purely on why I think Detroit will continue to decline. And it will, partially because of bad schools. No mythology there.
So it’s the people and what they value (or the lack of) resulting in actions that eventually bring property values down.
Low moral/ethical values results in low property values.
Now where do you think those low values started?
In the home maybe?