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Pics expose horrendous conditions in Detroit public schools
Among the photos taken
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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.
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One Detroit teacher even quit her job to work elsewhere, due to horrendous classroom conditions taking a toll on her health. Nancy Muerhoff, a kindergarten teacher at Carleton Elementary in Detroit, said water from toilets above her classroom has been leaking through her classroom’s ceiling for over three years. Her classroom is connected to a dilapidated greenhouse that hasn’t been cleaned in years. Muerhoff said her classroom has a distinct odor that gives her frequent headaches:
The door to the green house doesn’t have a doorknob, insulation, or a lock. She put bags in the doorknob hole after squirrels kept getting in to her classroom.
“I have told the building manager,” said Muerhoff. “He says, ‘Oh we have to get a contractor.’ The contractor never comes out.”
The windows in the greenhouse are covered in a black substance. She doesn’t know if it is mold or mildew. She knows it smells and isn’t clean.
Detroit Schools are so cold in the wintertime that students expect to have to wear their coats in the classroom, and those same students attempt to learn in the midst of heat exhaustion during the hotter months.
Students are forced to learn in the midst of black mold — where crumbling walls, floors, and ceilings drip rain on their heads and electronics. Their bathrooms are broken, and the drinking fountains are scarce. Mushrooms are literally growing from the walls. There is a mustiness in the air and people are getting sick, coming down with headaches, and finding it difficult to breathe. It’s gotten so bad, teachers have been waging sick-outs to draw attention to the matter, a protest method that Emergency Manager Earley smugly derided as “misguided.”
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http://usuncut.com/class-war/detroit...urbing-photos/
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What the hell 
