My Letter To Connie Calloway

July 26, 2007

Connie Calloway
3031 West Grand Blvd, Suite 485
Detroit, MI 48202

Dear Mrs. Calloway:

Thank you for taking the time to read my letter, it means a lot to me. The purpose of my letter is to discuss with you the problems that are going to occur when the district closes the Detroit Public Schools that are needed for most students. One problem would be that there can be over crowding in schools, more fighting, brutal violence, and other things that can happen when too many people are together for a long period of time.

The district is closing some schools because of money issues or low enrollment; I understand that, but in order to have some high enrollment, we need to close the schools that do need to be closed. Some high schools have gangs that “represent” other schools and if they transfer to the next high school representing their old school, that can result in a gang-related fight. This happens every day that I have attended school. There’s always some odd reason as to why someone’s fighting because of what someone else feels.

To explain the problem of over crowding in some schools would be an example of the student-teacher ratio. If schools over crowded so much that it becomes a problem, then it makes the student-teacher ratio uneven. If there are too many students in one class, other students cannot learn and some teacher cannot keep all of their students under control. To solve this, you would need to hire more staff workers in that school.

One child named Tonya T. from Redford high school stated that, “they shouldn’t close them. That would just make more trouble”. Also one lady whose name was not identified stated that, “Detroit Public Schools have already taken away the after- school activities, why take anything else”? (Detroit News)

With all of this happening, this makes me very upset, disappointed, and sad. It makes the city’s schools system look bad compared to other school systems. This means that since so many schools are closing, so many kids would have to go away from their friends and travel quite a way to get to that school. I feel that Detroit Public Schools should have already had their problems in Detroit Public Schools solved; this just proves (to me) that the city of Detroit does not have everything organized.

My purpose is to explain to you what is may be going on behind the business of the district and how some people feel about this.