Yes and not nearly enough people have been held accountable, although they have gone after some. This has been going on for YEARS. Too many hands in the cookie jar, so to speak.
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It is ridiculous for anyone to compare a lecture hall in a university to class sizes in the Detroit Public Schools. Many students are serious about their education by the time they reach college. They will not disrupt classes being held in a lecture hall at a university. They are not going to waste their money and other serious students or the professor in the hall would not allow it. Students in grade school are much different. Smaller class size is crucial for learning. Marva Collins is an educator worth listening to on youtube. John Taylor Gatto is another person worth listening to on youtube. He has a book titled "Weapons of Mass Instruction". It is an interesting book. I also think that DPL had really screwed up wihen board members had sold a paid off school center building and moved their offices inside the New Center One building. More money was being paid in leasing the space in the New Center One building than was being paid in taxes on the school center building. DPS is now moving some of it's offices in an abandoned school building. WTF!
That is almost impossible to believe. At what point does an organization, whatever it might be, a plant, a school district, become too large to manage? I worked for a manufacturing firm when I was just out of high school that had several plants in the United States and Europe. They had a maximum number of people in mind when they built plants because they knew that after a certain amount, I don't remember the numbers, it would become impossible to manage. Of course there are other issues here but the district seems impossible to manage as it is.
In its heyday when there was upwards of 180,000 students and 22 high schools DPS was probably too large to manage efficiently, then you start adding in the cronyism and friends and family hiring and contracting plans it makes it impossible to have a functional organization that holds true to its mission.