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Ah, Detroit. While the smell of rubber and welding may no longer emanate through the air in this city of automotive manufacturing, the schools are still working to keep production up; the production of well-educated, successful members of society. In the last decade, Detroit Public Schools have lost more than 60,000 students. While much of this loss has been due to the city’s steadily declining population and shrinking birthrates, leaders of Detroit Schools also say that this is attributable to poaching from charter schools and neighboring public school systems.

Detroit Schools aren’t going down without a fight, however. They are teaming up with community organizations, parent groups and its unions in an aggressive effort to recruit and retain students. The declining student enrollment at Detroit Schools may also force the district to operate on a lower budget, and will most definitely cause cuts in per pupil funding.

School systems like Detroit Schools must adapt or die. We live in an ever-changing world, and this change must be carefully implemented in our schools; both in order to keep up with trends in education, and to ensure that students are well-educated and ready to enter the adult world of work. When a city like Detroit is losing population as well as facing a shrinking birthrate, it struggles for survival just as a fish does on the deck of a boat. Hopefully, Detroit Schools will not flounder around, but face their problems head-on with a well-thought out plan on how to turn things around.

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One way that the Detroit Schools can affect this change is to offer unique programs of study to its students. Gone are the days when Detroit Schools children studied only the three Rs, Home Economics and Physical Education. Colleges and universities are demanding better-prepared students, and employers want new-hires to already possess some of the skills needed for the job. Magnet schools are an excellent way for Detroit Schools to offer these kinds of programs.

A Detroit Schools magnet program offers students the chance to work through school while concentrating on areas they are interested in. Montessori magnets are popular, as well as Performing Arts and Foreign Language. Students who are Gifted & Talented can attend magnet programs that cater to their needs. Students with exceptionalities can go to a magnet school that will address the physical as well as the educational needs they possess.

Detroit Schools offer several magnet schools, of which many are unique. Among these world-class programs are the Foreign Language Immersion and Cultural Studies School, Michigan’s only public school of its kind; Davis Aerospace, one of few college prep high schools in the country where students can obtain a pilot’s license; the Detroit School of the Arts, a multiple award winning performing arts high school; and Crockett Technical High School, a digital technology high school. please visit Detroit Public School Ratings and Detroit Public School Rankngs

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Do you do your best thinking behind the wheel? Behind the wheel of a big rig is where I have my best thoughts, PayPal was one of them.

Just shortly after the dawn of the debit card, I had a brain wave for being able to allow people, that were not fortunate enough to have a credit card, to still make purchases online, via their debit card or straight transaction from a bank account. I had taken the idea to Invention Submission Corporation (ISC), but due to overwhelming exitement, I didn’t explain the idea quite the way I should have. If you ever get to this point in your life, I strongly suggest you have all your ducks in a row before you proceed. The idea I conveyed to ISC, led them to think I wanted to patend an idea for a card swiper integrated into your PC allowing you to do this. ISC did a wonderful job on the 00.00 book I paid for with all the excellent research they had done. What I should have asked for was the technology (programming) to ALLOW the use… big difference.

If YOU believe in it, don’t ever give up.

Frustrated, I put the idea on the shelf for a while. No knowing much about computers or programming, I searched for someone that did. I found 4 different people who said they could help, for a very hefty fee. So, I tried to find private funding. Each Person I went to (multi-millionaires) thought it was a very good idea, but they were very pesimistic, (how they became wealthy is beyond me). All of them had asked me the same question, they asked, “with the technology that is out there right now, how is it no one has thought of this yet?” I told them there was…ME! Who was I to them? I had no credibility in this area. I’m just a truck driver to them.

Today, PayPal is a household word and is resposible for hundreds of millions of transactions. Unfortunately, I let that negetivity knock down my self confidence, and the idea became a reality for someone else. For the record, PayPal was not the name I had come up with.

On to the next one.

 A number of years pass, then another idea hits me like a ton of bricks.

I was on I-90 in Montana and stopped at the Broadway Truck Stop, exit 495, to see if they had what I was looking for, a keychain retractor. You’re probably wondering where the heck I’m going with this, but wait, it gets better. How many of you have your CB mic hanging from a mini bungie cord, that swings around from the ceiling of your cab, occasionally hitting you in the head?

I bought a keychain retractor, bent the belt clip at a 90% angle and fastened it to the ceiling of the cab, hooked my mic on and… it didn’t work. The mic was too heavy for the spring inside and the chain was too noisy. I took the retractor apart, twisted the spring tighter, replaced the chain with a mason’s string and… the spring still wasn’t strong enough. The cord worked like a charm. I bought another retractor and some JB weld. I did the same modifications to the second one and welded them together…voila! I would only use it at night so no one would see it. I don’t think Hugh Hefner had anything pulled as hard as I yanked on those two retractors, trying to break them. For 3 months I tested out my prototype.

Back I went to ISC, another 00.00 later for a book on the research they had done. They do excellent research when you’re specific on what you are asking for. I only needed another ,000.00 and they would have taken it to market.

I scrounged around looking for someone with the same vision as me and came up empty handed. Every effort I made to save money was shot down by my wife (now Ex-wife). It’s very hard to achieve something when you keep getting shut down. So, I put that one on the shelf for a while. A year later, I was in a truckstop in Michigan and nearly had a heart attack. There it was, on the shelf for .99 (at the time). ISC estimated my cost at producing it at approximately .75. I was so furious. I bought one, took it home and threw it on the kitchen table in front of my wife and said, “not such a bad idea now is it.” She was speechless.

Hipocritical

 The sub heading in this article “If YOU believe in it, don’t ever give up,” well I did, give up that is. Advice is only good if you take it. It was always easy for me to give advice but I never took my own. I have learned the hard way. That’s what mistakes are made of. I have a number of other ideas I’ve been working on over the past few years, and my biggest one yet has been in the works for the past 25 years. I’m not giving up on any of them this time, and the big one, well lets just say, I’ll give you a little hint…maybe in another article. It’s so ridiculously simple, you’ll probably kick yourself for not thinking of it.

Check out my articles to come, I’ll be giving hints.

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