What bothered me about the article is this:
Detroit Department of Transportation [[DDOT) buses are refusing to pick up students under the guise buses are full, leaving students as sitting ducks for violence.
They're making it sound as though DDOT is conspiring to get students attacked by refusing to pick them up. Believe it or not, there is a limit to the number of people you can cram onto one city bus, and that limit is routinely reached on routes that serve DPS high schools. Try riding the Fenkell near Cooley just before school starts, or the Grand River near Northwestern. You won't be able to breathe.

What the Citizen should be saying, if they were interested in making the situation better and not just rabble-rousing, is "our bus system is so underfunded that they can't even put enough buses out there to get our kids to school on time. This is ridiculous. Here is how we should go about increasing the revenue available to DDOT so they can provide adequate bus service for our city." Instead, they make it look like DDOT's management is the problem, when DDOT is more or less exactly what we, the electorate, have made it.