No. I don't think we can blame the educators for how bad DPS has become. I think it's problems are numerous and multi-faceted. Unfortunately, it's gotten to the point that the death spiral is in full effect: The best students with the best parents have left, bringing down the average, which encourages more families to uproot. There is no end in sight. That's why I argue for a dramatic reorganization of DPS. It could even have the same personalities and staff on the other end, but there has to be a new beginning of some sort. That said, I have no idea what it would look like. What I do know is that as a citizen of Detroit, Michigan, and the US, I'm ashamed that this is how kids are treated in my home city.Could we expect DPS's current state of being to reverse if all staff and administration was replaced with educators from top performing school districts in the state?
Agreed. It is a disaster. It is a shame. It is embarrassing. What if the current state of DPS was the result of a single dramatic event? Say, flooding due to a terrible storm with video footage of failed levees. We might have Brad Pitt and other notables having a "Save DPS" telethon this coming week. Or, perhaps the decline of DPS truly is a natural disaster. It might be natural, when the causes are numerous and ambiguous, that human nature directs us, out of self-preservation, to avoid helping and getting entangled in a quagmire of the sort that DPS has become.