Part 1 of Essay
Educators across the country are failing to adequately prepare our children for the future. The state of Michigan has recently been campaigning this idea for this reason; nowhere in the state is the problem more prevalent than in the city of Detroit. The schools of Detroit have been sadly criticized as some of the worst ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... can we expect these students to go to college with the lack of preparation our schools have (or have not) given them? Not only are our schools graduating inadequately educated students, 29.7% of Detroit’s high school seniors are not graduating at all. (McWhiter, 6A) This means only one in three Detroit ninth-graders graduate in four years, and fewer than one in three ten graduates read at the 12th grade level. (Montemurri, 2A) Michigan schools are also lacking certified teachers, which creates a very high ....