Quote Originally Posted by Maria View Post

Mumford High cost 50 million to build? What school costs 50M to build?
Just did a quick check and the new King building came in at $46.4 m and the new CT was around $80 m . And on a Bloomfield Hills schools website they were claiming that they could build a school at the same price as the new King building. Its could be the case that they are in the ballpark especially when you consider not only the building but the state of the art equipment in the building as well.

We Detroiters were not served well by our elected school boards who "kicked the can" down the road for decades concerning school closures because they didn't have the political courage to make the hard decision. This went on so long we not only had too many buildings but the building stock was old with most of our high schools being at a minimum of 30 years old most older.

Now Mr. Roberts not only has to get rid of the excess buildings at the same time he needs to update the stock of school buildings which is difficult. The problems of student, teacher and staff adjustment to the new campus is going to be a problem as you stated. However that's what happens when you keep putting off.. putting off. Eventually all the issues are going to hit you all at once.

Since Mr. Roberts said this is a done deal, as Detroiters you can either vote with your feet, or suck it up and adjust and make sure if we get another chance to vote for a school board with power we make good decisions.