Originally Posted by
professorscott
I agree with everybody that DPS is financially in a very bad place, and what is proposed is going to make it even more difficult for the children to get a proper education. The question, though, is what can be done? The essential problem is that there isn't enough money available to the district for it to run as it should. One of the troubling aspects of this is that the district has so badly managed its affairs over the years that nobody outside DPS is going to be very eager to throw more money at it.
But there are still tens of thousands of kids in Detroit who deserve a decent education; most of them aren't getting one now, and it seems this is almost certain to make things worse, if "worse" is even imaginable.
So what to do? Complaining about it won't help; facts are facts and the money just isn't there. Detroit is broke, DPS is broke, Michigan is broke and most of us are broke. So what to do?