Name me a deserving DPS school

**detmsp** · May-08-09, 12:47 AM

As an avid Target shopper, I have a Target credit card. Target has a program where a certain % of your Target credit card purchases can be donated to a school of your choice. I'd love to choose a DPS school. So what is a DPS school that is in need [[i suppose they all are) and deserves the contribution? I want to make sure it goes to a school that has it's head on straight... a school where the faculty is really committed to the students. Please give me your suggestions

Thanks!

**barnesfoto** · May-08-09, 12:49 AM

Western High School

**Jmil** · May-08-09, 03:31 AM

Chrysler Elementary School
1445 E, Lafayette
Detroit, MI
[[313) 494-8440
Principal Linda Whitaker

Check out Great Schools MEAP results
http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/...1078#standards

Target program is already in place.
Box tops are also collected.

**DetroitTeacher** · May-08-09, 05:39 AM

COOLEY!! We are being reconstituted [[the Principal is retiring and it's a good time to do so) but we have GREAT kids who deserve so much more than what they are getting. Our MME scores are getting better, we have quite a few kids who made the state average on the ACT, and many who have been accepted to college.

**iheartthed** · May-08-09, 10:06 AM

Just curious, but what would make a school be undeserving?

Retroit · May-08-09, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Just curious, but what would make a school be undeserving?

What school was Moronica Conyours allowed to graduate from?

**detmsp** · May-08-09, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Just curious, but what would make a school be undeserving?

an undeserving school would be one where the faculty has given up on the students and just don't give a shit. i want to make sure the money goes to a school that will put it to good use.

**exdetroiter** · May-08-09, 11:13 AM

Cass Tech, and Renenciase[[sp?) High School,

**firstandten** · May-08-09, 11:31 AM

Alonzo Bates Academy

Despite the name probaby the best K-8 school in the city. Feeder school for Cass Tech and Renaissance.

**DetroitFats** · May-08-09, 12:19 PM

Western International High School, 1500 Scotten

Retroit · May-08-09, 01:27 PM

^ Unemployed English Major, by chance?

Retroit · May-08-09, 02:05 PM

Well, congratulations on staying awake during the Apostrophe Lesson.

A+

**313WX** · May-08-09, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by exdetroiter

Cass Tech, and Renenciase[[sp?) High School,

Of course, the obvious choice would be the top 2 schools [[academically) in the city of Detroit.

**Crystal** · May-08-09, 05:10 PM

I have a big bag of Box Tops [[for Education) that I had been saving for my husband's school. He is a chemistry teacher in Indiana [[looking for work in Michigan). His school does not participate in the Box Tops program.

I could mail the box tops to Cooley or to Cass Tech.

Retroit · May-08-09, 06:03 PM

How about Campbell's Soup labels? Any schools still collect those?

**East Detroit** · May-08-09, 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by KingRex

No, full-time employed non-English major.

I appreciate irony, though, and want to lend some kind of balance to this blog.

This is a message board; not a blog.

Score two for pedantry!

**detmsp** · May-08-09, 07:20 PM

Originally Posted by KingRex

Maybe you could put that 23 cents toward grammar lessons for yourself. Otherwise, I can't see where throwing more money at DPS would help.

Thanks mom.

PS. Get over yourself

**detmsp** · May-08-09, 07:27 PM

thanks for all the suggestions everyone. if anyone else wants to enroll in the program, just go to http://www.target.com/tcoe [[you need a Target credit card)

Props to Target for doing this. They have really donated a lot! Cass Tech has received over $22,000 from this program!

**hubbardfarmer** · May-08-09, 07:57 PM

The Detroit school system might be a mess, but I can't imagine why any individual school wouldn't be deserving of funds to help meet their students' needs. Detroit has some very good schools that deserve support, some of which have been mentioned in this thread. Detroit also has thousands of children who deserve much more than they are getting when they go to school every day. Maybe it would be better to direct your money to a school that isn't a top performer but could be if it had the resources? Just my $.02.

**65memories** · May-08-09, 08:08 PM

Mumford High School, the best kept secret in the city.

**cycledetroit** · May-08-09, 09:01 PM

Bates! I was a nanny for a family who sent their kids there, it was a great education. When they moved to Los Angeles, the kids were a year ahead in all subjects.

**noenaim** · May-08-09, 09:08 PM

There are several very good public schools in the Detroit here is a list of some the highest performing DPS schools.

Renaissance High School
Cass Technical High School
Bates Academy
Chrysler Elementary School
Ludington Magnet Middle School
Burton International School
Gompers Elementary School
McColl Elementary School
Wright, Charles School
Carstens Elementary School
Nichols Elementary School
Nichols Elementary School
Harding Elementary School
Mann Elementary School
Pasteur Elementary School
Thirkell Elementary School

My information is from a good web site Great Schools
http://www.greatschools.net/

You can also check out the state of Michigan school grades
http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7...877---,00.html

but any Detroit school needs support and as teacher myself when money gets directly to a school it is usually spent well on things that school needs.

**Zulu Warrior** · May-08-09, 09:57 PM

The Foreign Language Immersion Cultual School.....best K-8 in Detroit...

**annalouise** · May-09-09, 08:11 PM

Osborn High School.
It needs the money badly and every student I"ve known from that school is intensely passionate about their education.

I know Western is great in terms of the passion and support that the teachers and administrators have. At Osborn that passion comes from the students.

**MrCrush1914** · May-09-09, 08:44 PM

I say any school that's good and does NOT have a new building. There are many other deserving schools out there that get skipped over. They typical Cass/Renaissance/DSA etc schools already have better resources than other schools- not to say they can't use more.

I say Bates/Burton International are some schools that could use a little help as well.