Did you read the article in yesterday's Freep and see the map? I am so puzzled. I grew up on the lower east side of Detroit in a house that was at least 40 years old then. Pretty sure that there was lead in the paint back then. And all my friends grew up in the same neighborhood. We all did well in school and went on the graduate from college, get advanced degress, etc. We are lawyers, teachers, psychologists, engineers, and scientists.

Maybe we aren't as smart as we would have been if there wasn't lead in the paint in our houses - but school wasn't hard for us. I am so puzzled that lead dust is so deeply affecting children in Detroit now and not then. We lived in the very houses that current kids live in. For example, I lived as a small child in my grandmother's house near Lillibridge. Later in the Fox Creek neighborhood.