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To: jmaroneps37

I'm not a big fan of the Weekly Standard, but this was one of the best articles I've ever read about that disgraceful place known as Detroit:

The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep

64 posted on 07/22/2009 7:17:36 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (God is great, beer is good . . . and people are crazy.)

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To: Alberta's Child

Amazing:

Detroit schools haven't ordered new textbooks in 19 years. Students have reported having to bring their own toilet paper. Teachers have reported bringing hammers to class for protection. Declining enrollment has forced 67 school closures since 2005 (more than a quarter of the city's schools). The graduation rate is 24.9 percent, the lowest of any large school district in the country....

We all know it's bad in Detroit, but I had no idea just how bad.

102 posted on 07/22/2009 11:31:22 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)

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