Detroit Public Schools

This is unbelievable. I live in the Detroit Metro area and I can think of many teachers who were laid off at the start of the new school year as well as many who were retrenched who would have liked to have a job on Monday morning. This shows lack of poor planning and foresight on the part of the principal. These students are primarily African-American, taught by African-American teachers. Where is your empathy? Would you have liked your children sent home from school due to a lack of teachers? The principal should be replaced.

There is no way that students whose parents are tax payers should tolerate having a principal who operates in this manner. I am calling for a replacement of the Principal and an investigation launched into whether or not this is the first time and how much planning goes into the placement of teachers.

Recently at my daughter's school, Renaissance High School, the leading high school in the Detroit Public Schools System, as well as being one of the best high schools in the State, highly trained teachers were retired or removed. Renaissance is a college preparatory school, so it attracts the best students as well as the best faculty. Many teachers with advanced degrees who taught 11th and 12th graders were fired or sent to teach middle schools. This the School District explained was due to cost cutting measures.

It seems then, that if the administration at the School Board does not care, then the principals are left up to their own devices. Something has to give. It is time for intervention. Children should not have to suffer, because school officials are incapable of making the right decisions. The students who were affected by this Principal's decision should have their lessons made up to them, and the school district should ensure that proper mechanisms are implemented to make sure that this happens. Similarly steps should be taken to ensure that this incident is not repeated in the future.