It amazes me how some forumers can be so shocked about situations that occur with DPS. Remember it's DPS - a broke, mismanaged school system. What do you expect? Truth be told, short of bricking in the entrances to many of the vacant school buildings, the scrappers are going to find ways to get into these buildings. If bricking the entrances was done, then the scrappers and vandals would have come through the windows or the roofs. Posting guards might have helped, but who hires guards to watch over buildings you really don't intend on using any more? The vandalizing of property in Detroit is a Detroit issue, not a DPS issue.

Some of these vacant school buildings needed to be closed and should meet with the wrecking ball. The reason some were closed probably had a lot to do with their poor physical plant. Why was the new Cass Tech H.S built? Because the old one was in bad shape. I'm sure that some of the vacant school buildings could be used by non-profit social services organizations, but they too are having financially difficulties that make it hard to buy these buildings for use.

The fact remains that a large number of school buildings were closed and many more will be added to that list after this school year ends. With a deficit of over three hundred million dollars, where is DPS going to find the funds to secure these buildings? What they should definitely do is decide which buildings have the potential to be reused and make a genuine effort to secure these buidings up front and market them to be sold to non-profits.

BTW, remember that some neighborhoods aren't too keen on having a non-profit drug treatment center in their neighborhood when they use to have a school. Just something to think about,