This was ongoing when I worked there 25 years ago. You can only kick the can down the road so far. The high school teachers that I worked with had pretty much given up and sweating out their time to retirement. Can't imagine what it is like now.
"There are many horrific stories to be told about the implosion of Detroit, once the nation’s most prosperous city, today its poorest. There is the story of its corrupt public institutions, its feckless leaders, its poisonous racial politics, its practically nonexistent economy, the riots that have led to its thrice being occupied by federal troops. The most horrific story may be that of the death of its children.
Detroit has the highest child-mortality rate of any American city, exceeding that of many parts of what we used to call the Third World. "...
BlazerBob wrote: This was ongoing when I worked there 25 years ago. You can only kick the can down the road so far. The high school teachers that I worked with had pretty much given up and sweating out their time to retirement. Can't imagine what it is like now.
"There are many horrific stories to be told about the implosion of Detroit, once the nation’s most prosperous city, today its poorest. There is the story of its corrupt public institutions, its feckless leaders, its poisonous racial politics, its practically nonexistent economy, the riots that have led to its thrice being occupied by federal troops. The most horrific story may be that of the death of its children.
Detroit has the highest child-mortality rate of any American city, exceeding that of many parts of what we used to call the Third World. "...
