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Royal Oak Township's Carver Elementary School is "a cinderblock monstrosity," is it? Well, this is the school I had to build in a nearby village one day last year toward the finish of the monsoon, and in two days of end-of-monsoon rain, it looked like this (see cut). When the four months' rain totaled 250 in., the kids moved into a 10 by 10 cowshed darker than the Black Hole and as miry as Andersonville; and when the cows needed shelter we had to move out again...
...township's youngsters are not without promise. Not long ago one of them turned up with an IQ of 140. But Carver School's Principal Adelaide Long has her troubles. A cinder-block monstrosity, the school bears knife scars from floors to ceilings. Insurance companies have given up on the windows: last year the kids broke $3,000 worth, and this year Principal Long is converting to plywood...
Until last year, Carver's graduates went on to Detroit high schools as tuition students. As the schools grew more crowded. Detroit grew more weary of Royal Oak Township's youngsters. Moreover, the Carver school district now owes Detroit $125,053.67 in back tuition. With one former superintendent having already looted school funds, Carver is in no position...
After Detroit rejected tuition students, the Carver district's school board appealed to the adjacent white suburbs. Ferndale, which already has a 10% Negro high school enrollment, had no qualms about turning down Carver graduates. Oak Park, a predominantly liberal Jewish community, suffered some embarrassment. In the end, Oak Park followed Ferndale. Only a nearby Roman Catholic parochial school. Our Lady of Victory, still accepts Royal Oak Township's children. But it is not a high school...
Last week all sorts of experts were mulling over "long-range" solutions for Royal Oak Township's problems. Some of them thought the place should be wiped out as a political entity. But no one had yet found a high school for Carver's 24 ninth-graders. The only solution, it seemed, was to plunk them back in Carver and call one of its battered rooms a high school...