Inkster and Buena Vista School Districts Dissolved

[trstar]

you know exactly what happens.
poor kids in the pool? affluent parents take their kids to the private pool.
then the public schools get unfunded.
then the state shuts down the public schools.
then the kids are put in other public schools.
the cycle must continue.
we must never learn from history!

exactly. Properly funding Public Schools is the only answer.

[Danny]

.....and repeat!

[Wesley Mouch]

I would wager that currently tens of thousands of Detroit students attend schools outside of Detroit. Ever heard of school choice? Charters? Why do you think this would no longer be the case? And re. space utilization is a separate matter, and not related to whether or not suburbs will have to take on Detroit students [[just as with Inkster, where Dearborn and other surrounding districts will take on Inkster students; whether they utilize Dearborn buildings or Inkster buildings isn't really the key point; the point is there is no Inkster anymore' it's all the responsibility of adjacent districts).

In NYC, the next attack by union teachers against charters will be waged on this issue. The union is pushing to get a law passed that will not allow co-location -- where a charter operates in exactly the same building as a public school. Where a public charter school or a public district school operate is irrelevant, so long as the public resource [[building) is being used to educate. Maybe in fact being the custodians of real estate is the most valuable function of a school district -- since they often don't seem to care about education much.