The main problem with these schools in Detroit is not how the students treated them, the main problem is not enough students. The biggest problem with how the buildings are treated comes with their abandonment, and the scrappers who inevitably follow. Of course, there's also the plain fact that DPS must have better ways to use their meager resources than to try to maintain old schools with no students, and none coming for the foreseeable future.
Funny thing is, I'm just old enough to remember when the "new" Scripps school was built back in the 1960s. A few of my friends went there. It was badly needed at the time to relieve the extreme overcrowding of the old Scripps school [[which my grandmother had attended). Hard to believe now...
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