Hard Up for Education
It’s ever more difficult to get a good education in the Metro-Detroit area. 15 Catholic schools have been closed due to financial problems and poor enrollment (probably due to high tuition, ironic eh?).
Most of the closures are happening within the borders or just outside the city. In turn, if you’re a high school age student in Detroit generally you don’t have numerous options for a good education. Now, in many cases, you have none.
When I read that my heart sank. Not only is education disappearing from the Detroit area, standards have fallen away, too. I was saddened to see that Trinity High School is closing because it holds the very last breaths of life that continued on from my elementary education at Our Lady Queen of Peace. When that school closed some years ago and turned into a mediocre shrine to the Virgin, the school took up residence in the high school. I’d considered sending Fina there in 2nd grade, but I couldn’t afford it at the time. Now every bit of my childhood schooling, of which I have very fond memories, is going to turn to dust. What are people supposed to do when the public system fails and the private system becomes unattainable?