Mold and fungi covering the walls, floors and ceilings caved in, rat and roach infestation, water turned brown due to a sewage backup. Sounds like a condemned, long since abandoned building. Definitely not a place you want your loved ones going into, right?
Well, this is what thousands of Detroit students, teachers, and other faculty are walking into every day when they go to school.
Earlier this month, Detroit schools closed while angry faculty, parents, and students went on a "Sick out" strike to protest these deplorable learning and teaching conditions, and so far it has worked, as three schools have already been shut down due to this strike.
"Teachers in Detroit decided today it is our day to make a stand and break the new Jim Crow that we have in Detroit today, the segregated, unequal conditions we have that is not fair to our students and not fair to those students or the people of Detroit," said Nicole Conaway, a teacher at East English Village high school.
Although some Detroit residents aren't happy about the protest. "It's unfortunate when people use incendiary rhetoric and force schools to close for a day when students most need to be in the classroom," complained Governor Rick Snyder spokesman, David Murray.
It is hoped that schools will not just be shut down or forgotten about within the next few months, but actually have some time and care put back into fixing them so that the students and faculty can return without worry.
