A witness states:
“Therefore, the Emergency Manager’s actions to push special education students out of
schools which have a history of providing superior services, into circumstances where
services are sparse has detrimental consequences.”
Everyone seems to know. While teachers are careful, they do speak to family and friends. A complainant
explains his opinion of how the community is impacted by the retaliation against teachers:
“Teachers in the Detroit Public Schools, Charters, and EAA are told that they cannot tell
what is going on or they will lose their job, so they have to be silent and watch children be
harmed which destabilizes the whole community.” 31
A former teacher explains:
“This is the new trail of tears. The Governor is sending kids on a trail to prison. I feel they
don’t want us to learn. If you take away the ability to read, write and multiply, you
disenable those people and they