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  1. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    How far are from Franklin? Ive been to the CMI factory a couple of times. that is a nice little town one to think of it.
  2. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    ah, your in the swamp! now it all make sense.
  3. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    wow, never heard that song. what a horrible story. Speaking of mining, guthrie takes me to John Prine. another legend of a story teller <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/utRxWEjdbac" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  4. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    yeah thats true, like coal mining in W Virginia, you dont need to be able to read to work the line, but your still making the company a lot of money with your time... or was. that era seems to be gone. whats left but to get your disability and get high.
  5. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    how is it in W. Virginia? i imagine it as pretty rough. All the drugs there and stuff. I have driven through a couple times it struck me as a pretty tough place. How are the schools there? I could not imagine raising a family there. Although im sure not all of W. virginia is like its...
  6. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    im a transplant. I have only been here for 16 years. Ive never had any reason to leave. I love my neighbors and as far as I can tell, they love me back. Schools are the one big question mark at the moment.
  7. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    i met and made my family here. if they want to bail. ill go too.
  8. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    yeah, basically, and the poorly educated will be most affected
  9. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    parents shouting with school board members seems a lot healthier than beimg governed by a state government made up of people who would never even set foot in the city, much less care about the kids there. Their only worry is the effect on the state budget. There is noone to yell at now and i...
  10. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    http://detroiturbex.com/content/schools/ here are some pictures of closed and abandoned schools. some of these schools, I taught in. there Are more schools on the closeing list for next year and i dont beleive this is a complete list as there are some schools I know are not on there.
  11. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    http://www.eclectablog.com/2016/03/former-flint-detroit-public-schools-emergency-manager-darnell-earley-will-receive-over-80k-in-consulting-fees.html Yes there were problems. Increasing community involvement is the key. forcefully disenfranchising community self determination and removing an...
  12. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    the story of detroits schools and the water crises in flint are remarkably similar. both involve state takeover and a penny counting culture that puts dollars ahead of human rights. water in flint, education in detroit. They two stories involve even the same people. Emergency manager of...
  13. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    i was a subsitute teacher in detroit in 2002-2003. i taught in a lot of different schools. some of them were excellent, others not so much. the situation was far better than it is today. it borders on criminal. oh and bobb was paid 500,000 a year to dismantle the school system. They folks...
  14. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/upshot/the-long-term-jobs-killer-is-not-china-its-automation.html a bit on automation in todays nytimes.
  15. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    thats crap Jay. burning a school down, which literally has been done, does nothing for anyone and permanently destroys a community. these schools were the bedrock of the communities and neighborhoods they served. that will never be rebuilt, its lost, destroyed. gone. its incredibly painful...
  16. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    they do have the ability to be more creative. They can be more experimental, flexible and not bound by the same restrictions as your standard public school. I will give them that. There are some excellent charter schools.
  17. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    you wont find many people around here with a positive outlook of Mr. Bobb.
  18. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    or a huge amount of work and exhausting. Its hard to come up with different things to do. it also means that one of us would have to work extra hard so the other would not have to work at all.
  19. kevin bingham

    Tree Work in Detroit? (or other hard-hit cities)

    we have thought about home schooling. but that is a huge amount of work. im not so much worried about academics as we can provide that. i would like my kids to have a social environment that is stable and helps them learn to be decent people and not weirdos. We have talked about home...
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