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Detroit School Lacks Toilet Paper, Light Bulbs Donations Accepted Beginning Jan. 12
POSTED: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 UPDATED: 8:34 pm EST January 7, 2009 DETROIT -- A Detroit elementary school is asking for donations of toilet paper and light bulbs to keep their school functioning.
The principal of the Academy of Americas sent a letter to staff, parents and partners asking for donations of items "that are of the utmost importance for proper school functioning and most importantly for student health and safety."
In the letter, Principal Naomi Khalil cited budget constraints within the district as the reason why the school could no longer stock the items.
The district is grappling with a more than $400 million budget deficit and is on the verge of being assigned an emergency financial manager by the state.
The letter asks for toilet paper, paper towel rolls, trash bags and 60, 100 or 150-watt light bulbs.
"We realize that the economic situation is stressful for our entire community, but we are asking for your collaboration," wrote Khalil. "We thank you for your cooperation and we hope that as a school community we can pull together to guarantee the best possible educational environment for our children."
Parents said a letter went out asking for supplies at the start of the school year.
"They sent out a letter for pencils, pens, they put Kleenex on there," said parent Danny Huddleston.
A spokeswoman for the district said the school is not running out of supplies but instead is asking for them to ensure they have sufficient supplies to what they already have.
But at least one parent said he doesn't mind helping out the school no matter the circumstance.
"I'm all about helping the school. If that's what they need then that's what we need to see what we can do to help the out," said Juan Oroczo.
Donations are being accepted at the school's font office, beginning Jan. 12.
The school is located at 5680 Konkel St. in Detroit.
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Yes, I live here in Lincoln Park, MI. It IS bad in Detroit. Crime in the D is terrible, drugs are rampant, schools are terrible (no one apparently attends them anyway-lowest high school grad rate in the country at 24%!!!!), roads are bad (and we are the motor city), half of the houses are either for sale or foreclosed, or burned down, population is less than 50% of what it was in the '50s, unemployment is highest in the country, property taxes in Detroit are high, etc., etc., etc. Detroit may be on it's way to being the nations largest ghost town.
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quote:Originally posted by rhwdetroit: Yes, I live here in Lincoln Park, MI. It IS bad in Detroit. Crime in the D is terrible, drugs are rampant, schools are terrible (no one apparently attends them anyway-lowest high school grad rate in the country at 24%!!!!), roads are bad (and we are the motor city), half of the houses are either for sale or foreclosed, or burned down, population is less than 50% of what it was in the '50s, unemployment is highest in the country, property taxes in Detroit are high, etc., etc., etc. Detroit may be on it's way to being the nations largest ghost town.
Definatly sounds like time to move.
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Well, the mayor is in Prison and there main industry "autos" is in peril with bailouts. Maybe they should have pleaded with Charmin instead. LoL
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quote:Originally posted by invester: Well, the mayor is in Prison and there main industry "autos" is in peril with bailouts. Maybe they should have pleaded with Charmin instead. LoL
Really nothing funny about it invester...you have to be some kind of scumbag lowlife to find humor in the suffering of others...
quote:The homeless numbers in Detroit are depressing.
That can happen when you drop out of school to become a druggie or gang banger!
yes, thats true...but it also happens when you try to live the "american" dream, and it jumps up and bites you in the azz! get a good job in Flint, buy a nice house, marriage, kids, buy stuff you think you need,..plant closes, no job, wife leaves, lose kids,house,food,esteem, etc.. yes pms, there are many ways to become homeless...your senerio is only one of them.
quote:Originally posted by invester: Well, the mayor is in Prison and there main industry "autos" is in peril with bailouts. Maybe they should have pleaded with Charmin instead. LoL
Really nothing funny about it invester...you have to be some kind of scumbag lowlife to find humor in the suffering of others...
I must be a scumbag lowlife. It was a joke, lighten up. I'm not laughing at the misfortune of others, I'm laughing at the way they, and the government have run the state and nation.
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Detroit has fallen in the last twenty years. There's lots of places in the US that have been like that since the 1800's.... i know where they are, i've seen them with my own eyes...
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quote:The homeless numbers in Detroit are depressing.
That can happen when you drop out of school to become a druggie or gang banger!
yes, thats true...but it also happens when you try to live the "american" dream, and it jumps up and bites you in the azz! get a good job in Flint, buy a nice house, marriage, kids, buy stuff you think you need,..plant closes, no job, wife leaves, lose kids,house,food,esteem, etc.. yes pms, there are many ways to become homeless...your senerio is only one of them.
Are you real sure "scenario" is in PM's lexicon?
Why further confuse an already addled mind?
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Hey RHWDetroit, take it easy on poor bdgee. His whole life is tied to posting meaningless gibberish and hate-filled attacks! If you take that away from him, there's nothing left but an old angry socialist.
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quote:Originally posted by Propertymanager: Hey RHWDetroit, take it easy on poor bdgee. His whole life is tied to posting meaningless gibberish and hate-filled attacks! If you take that away from him, there's nothing left but an old angry socialist.
My God!
Whewwwwwwww, my, my, my....
That smells of someone that needs to watch his diet and get out into the breeze when he's passing wind, cause he's full of it.
The most prolific poster of meanness and nastiness here saying I am "tied to posting meaningless and hate-filled attacks!"
(Gibberish, of course, is anything beyond the grasp of PM's 18th century mentality about politics, which means about everything on Earth or not confuses him and he only sees it as gibberish. Poor thing.)
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