Detroit Student: "I Want to Be Able to Go to School Without Worrying About Being Bitten by Mice"
Detroit Student: "I Want to Be Able to Go to School Without Worrying About Being Bitten by Mice"
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JIM ARINI: The summer of 2014, while Detroit Public School was under emergency manager, the school requested from the city of Detroit a variance to their ordinance that requires an engineer to be on staff whenever a boiler is operating. We feel that it puts the children’s lives, the teacher’s lives and the general public’s lives in jeopardy of a boiler explosion. We can kind of relate to the Flint water crisis, the fact that we’ve poisoned kids in Flint under this emergency manager rule, and now the same emergency manager is operating Detroit Public Schools. We’re afraid that this is going to cause a safety issue and potentially lives at risk.
KATE LEVY: For student Wisdom Morales, the situation has created increasing anxiety.
WISDOM MORALES: I want to be able to go to school and not have to worry about being bitten by mice, being knocked out by the gases, being cold in the rooms.
KATE LEVY: And elected school board member Tawanna Simpson says the crisis is a result of state control.
TAWANNA SIMPSON: The educations is mandatory for our children here in Detroit. It’s mandatory for all young people in this country. And it’s not a good thing to suspend democracy. And emergency management does not care about our students. They’re there for the bottom line. It’s a very unjust thing to try to run a school district as a corporation.
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