Ahem, Detroit is a mess any way! For $280 thousand I will run the school district and put them in the black. However, with the union and the completely disfunctional parents having their say, it would be impossible. First, in order to have a school, you must establish a safe and secure learning environment. Forget the rest if you don't have that. What it means is the punks, druggies, gangs, violence prone, etc. have to go. Then you deal with what you have left, not forgetting that you have to have discipline and they must follow the rules or they are out! There is absolutely no will on the part of people to do this in Detroit. If memory serves, they have been having these problems for 50 years. So, what else is new?