Detroit’s Teachers Want You to See These Disturbing Photos of Their Toxic Schools
Mushrooms, black mold, fecal matter, dead rodents, no heat. Detroit’s schools are just as toxic as Flint’s water.
Detroit’s students are trying to learn while breathing in black mold and sitting in classrooms filled with buckets catching toilet water leaking through the ceiling. And that’s not even the worst part.
Republican Governor Rick Snyder is not only using the financial emergency management laws to poison children in Flint; he’s doing the same thing in Detroit via the public school system, which the state has controlled for the last seven years. Darnell Earley, the same emergency manager who oversaw the changes in Flint’s water system, is currently in charge of Detroit’s public schools.
Does your school look like this? #supportDPSteachers pic.twitter.com/jBGbkqoM4z— Detroitteach (@teachDetroit) January 15, 2016The people of Flint wanted the world to see the pictures detailing their horrifying conditions. But now, teachers and parents want the world to see these images from Detroit Public Schools under the direction of Gov. Snyder’s emergency management to get a better, broader idea of how Snyder ignores children for the sake of the bottom line:
Buckled floors, rodents,heating system that runs artic or sizzling hot-not conditions in which kids can learn pic.twitter.com/tStWJ0MG0f— Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) January 14, 2016I went to Cody in Detroit. Dedicated and caring staff teaching kids in appalling conditions. pic.twitter.com/2Vh0cYZ9GV— Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) January 14, 2016