http://www.iddream.com/2005/03/17/hard-up-for-education/ Welcome to I'dDream.com, est. Nov 1999. Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:17:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.iddream.com/2005/03/17/hard-up-for-education/comment-page-1/#comment-453 Cas Kopacki Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:43:00 +0000 http://www.iddream.com/plete/?p=196#comment-453 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? 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?

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