  Darwinism Member Username: Darwinism Post Number: 684 Registered: 06-2005 |
Saw this on Reddit and is once again reminded of the reason why Detroit's youth have been shortchanged. Unbelievably sad. http://www.flickr.com/photos/s weetjuniper/2050168942/in/set- 72157603302647339/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/s weetjuniper/sets/7215760330264 7339/ According to the photographer's blog posts, they are new to Detroit by way of San Francisco. http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2 007/11/it-will-rise-from-ashes .html A warm welcome to another transplanted Detroiter who sees the beauty in this city, and not afraid to speak up about the negatives. http://www.flickr.com/photos/s weetjuniper/sets/7215759441677 2324/ | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 907 Registered: 10-2003 |
"This is a building where our deeply-troubled public school system once stored its supplies, and then one day apparently walked away from it all, allowing everything to go to waste. The interior has been ravaged by fires and the supplies that haven't burned have been subjected to 20 years of Michigan weather." What wasn't damaged by the original fire was either damaged by smoke or water. Some supplies were recovered, but it is nearly impossible to get the smoke smell out of books. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 4892 Registered: 10-2004 |
When I was schooled (mostly during the 1950s), the students bought practically all their books and resold most of them, as long as they were in good condition and reused the next year. That was for eight years of parochial K-8 school, two years at a prep school (MUHS), and the final two years at a public school in a Milwaukee suburb. When I was teaching at a suburban Detroit high school (ditto for their middle school), all the books were kept in the classrooms, but could be taken home--much like a library in every classroom. Almost none of the students ever took any books home in the late 1990s or early 2000s there. I would assume that it's the same today. Let's consider the DPS case, does anybody really believe that any student there is kept back because of the lack of books? Nonsense! If any kid there really wanted a book, all he need do is ask, and he would be showered with all kinds of books because few else there are reading them. Just like the case for many of the burbs. | ||
Michigansheik Member Username: Michigansheik Post Number: 260 Registered: 09-2005 |
cool looking building. | ||
Davetroit Member Username: Davetroit Post Number: 41 Registered: 03-2007 |
The building is now owned by Matty Maroun.... | ||
Digitalvision Member Username: Digitalvision Post Number: 510 Registered: 11-2003 |
Not surprising. | ||
Craig Member Username: Craig Post Number: 650 Registered: 02-2007 |
Think that there's a copy of "Play with Jimmy" in all of that mess? |
