Detroit Schools Are In The Midst Of A Water Crisis (HBO)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2018
- It's the first week of school for public school students in Detroit, but these schools are in the midst of a water crisis.
Detroit Public Schools Superintendent Nikolai Vitti decided to shut down drinking fountains at every one of its 106 schools after initial tests of Detroit's drinking water showed high concentrations of copper and lead.
“I am turning off all drinking water in our schools until a deeper and broader analysis can be conducted to determine the long-term solutions for all schools,” said Vitti in a statement to school Detroit Public Schools Community District staff last week.
The decision affects close to 50,000 students across Michigan's largest school district, who started the school year Tuesday drinking from water bottles and coolers, not fountains. DPS will spend about $200,000 in the next few months providing bottled water at its schools while district officials work toward a long-term solution.
"It’s not just school, its’ everybody in the city being affected," said Dana Dacres, PTA president at Burton International Academy in Detroit.
One walk through the halls and it's easy to spot the black and white signs that read "CAUTION: DO NOT DRINK THE WATER" taped above every fountain.
“It’s now ingrained in our culture,” added Dacres, who’s five children all attend Burton, pointing to a letter thousands of other parents received from DPS informing them about the crisis. “This is not the first time Burton has been without water.”
This is actually the third time that the water has been shut down at her children's school. The first time, a burst water main caused a months-long shutdown. The second time, testing by the school district revealed elevated levels of copper.
DPS has initiated further testing at every one of its schools.
“We can’t see any more of those letters explaining yet again the faucets will be turned off,” Dacres said. “We know this, thank you, now let's get into business of fixing it permanently.”
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I'm a Michigan native, grew up in Flint actually. And it's always perplexed me that we have the largest source of freshwater in the world yet cities like mine and Detroit can't even drink the water from our taps
And yet corporations like Nestle are sucking it out and selling it back to you and barely paying anything for the water.
It's old pipes. You can have the modt crystal clear, perfect water in the world-- but if the pipes are old and leaking chemicals... you get Flint. The state and cities have put off fixing basic stuff like this for a long time.
No it was the government's inability to properly filter and treat the water, the pipes were not the source of problem until they were corroded by the un-properly filtered water.
Btw I worked for the Flint development centre and 80% of the homes in Flint now have filters on their faucets, filter up to 99% of the lead in the tap water, thanks to the programs provided people are now regularly offered free filters and refills.
+Star Cherry It still seems to come down to poor local management of needed infrastructure, regardless of whether one blames the pipes or filter/treatment.
We can't afford clean water. We need a Space Force.
Or 10 kids?
Please don't feed the trolls. Thank you.
Please. This a Democrat area. Always has been. Same as flint.
Detriot is run by democrats, Try again
How are the two related exactly? Does not water infrastructure spending come of local budgets, like city/county/state, where the so called Space Force would be funded by the federal budget?
Why cant the American government never get its priorities straight, such issues like this associated with education will have long term impacts on the American economy and creates further inequalities.
Hard to believe Detroit is in the US sometimes with the kinds of struggles so many people are seeing
It is not just Detroit. Much of the U.S. doesn't have clean water.
I imagine having 5 kids rather than 10 would cut that struggle in half..
Phil actually we have the Great Lakes freshwater there it’s just that part Detroit and Flint which is actually the two week course towns in all the rest have money clean water so you can’t really say that
It’s easy to forget Michigan is asleep because there’s two parts and it’s at the very top right and click it was the most people think to park in the like yeah and also we do have freshwater because we have the Great Lakes which is all freshwater
Some of our great lakes are running out
I actually work in Detroit public schools and I can say this is a big problem that needs resolving. The water coolers are a hassle for kids as water gets on the floors and it takes a while to let every kid get a drink. Teachers are also reluctant to let kids drink because of the hassle. I have seen multiple times, just in the 3 days that school has been open, of a kid asking to get a drink and the teacher says no because "if I let you get a drink I have to let everyone get a drink" (me personally I think its ridiculous to not let kids drink water but this wouldnt happen if we had fountains)
Remember that Little Caesar’s arena they said they were pulling taxes from Detroit schools for assist funding it ....
@@stephensmith8020 stadiums are simply not worth the money, mhhhmmmm
I'm sure they could just do a deal with a major water corporation to provide kids with bottled water
This is a shame! Shame on America! Come on man! Our kids shouldn’t have to deal with this.
Thank you Vice for covering stories others seem to forget about or are scared to cover 💗
I live in Detroit and this just sad like something has to be done this one of the reasons why I have depression I have to be home schooled I have no friends the water is still not I clean as it should be
To me it sucks and it's like I can't really be friends with kids out in my neighborhood cause it's always
Either they want to fight me for not reasons or other cases
Being home schooled for me it's sucks and I don't have kids in my family my age
like this can't keep happening somebody needs to do something
Ffs 10 kids? As a volunteer crossing guard. How does she support them all?
Trajan Trajan You can’t really say that because you don’t live in Michigan so can you not
Lol???
She doesn't have 10 kids. Stop making up shit. I only saw 2 kids.
She said "five kids that attend"
None of your business. That's not what this video is about.
You need to do a documentary on how Nestle has complex on the Great Lakes that resembles Area 51.
Sad man, just sad. I know it’s a played out word and sound like a broken record but I would move. Feel for the kids, they deserve better.
But the U.S. Department of Defense needs more money?...this country needs to reconsider its priorities.
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The southern northwestern part. You know, the part where birth control is banned.
Isn't Flint still in a water crisis? Gee Willikers, I wonder how long it'll take for us to forget about this issue.
I went to Detroit public schools most of my life and these schools have been getting worser and worser each year. Classrooms are so hot , the food they serve is either expired or moldy. So many issues I moved to another public school district outside of Detroit.
This is not a competition about who has the worst conditions, rather a wake up call about the injustices that these kids are being forced to deal with. How can people be okay with kids having to wash their hands with bottled water? How can people be okay with the cooks having to boil water or use bottled water to make food. No one in their possible right mind would be okay sending their children to a school like this with these hazardous conditions. This is not a black or white thing, this is a RIGHT and WRONG thing. The livelihood of these children depends on it! It is time to stand up and put all of the bickering aside and start to create chance!
Kartale Walker Just say it’s just that part because they don’t wanna pay for the water from the freshwaters of the Great Lakes which actually get only cleaned and everything so yeah
I started my teaching career in Baltimore where none of the water in schools has been drinkable for years.
We got money for wars.
They can put plastic linings in the pipes instead of replacing the pipes. It’s a temporary fix until they can replace the old pipes with new
Wait hold up is that me !!! With the Rick and Morty backpack 3:28
This happened when I was in 3rd grade at my elementary school (only in the elementary school) now I’m finally a freshman in highschool and they FINALLY fixed it in my old elementary school and no I don’t go to a school in Detroit
So many water crises these days.
Who runs the City and State?
That's where the problem is no matter what side.
Brando Not really, Neither party cares. That’s why you have places like this. Both sides won’t change anything.
It’s like Trump vs Hillary
It didn’t matter because nothing will happen in those 4-8 years. They won’t do anything life changing. No one is actually expecting something different now days. No one in Detroit is expecting to have there situation solved by one of the party’s. Both party’s are corrupt.
All you do is vote for the person who gives you the lies you want to hear.
I would love if those politicians would decided on a plan and get Detroit’s shit together but that won’t happen. Detroit hasn’t been in good condition for a while and I’m guessing it won’t be and any better condition in the future.
But you can hope
Here is the question: Who built those fountains or water lines among those schools? Consider black is in power at detroit for a long time (over five decades), it has something to do with black politicians, correct?
Maurice George no, whites built it and the blacks cannot maintain the infrastructure... just about anywhere in the world they can’t maintain it
The also good school in Detroit is Cass Tech and Renaissance High schools.
Hard to imagine this is happening in the US
water? like out the toilet?
Can we get these kids some damn drinking water?? Like damn.
...so why isn't the water distribution system chief operator and the city's public works super being investigated?
I would just move out of the state of Michigan. First flint now Detroit. Just move away.
The really sad thing is that it was caught on a fluke. Random guy opted to have the water in the schools tested when they didn't have to be, right before school started. This news came out in Michigan a week ago btw. The schools also have bottled water provided in school now.
Vice dropped rhe ball on actual reporting and just showed how one mom felt about it.
Here in Florida in Brevard county we have schools with lead and other contaminants. Why dont they get a nice video
With the current strain on the environment, situations like this will only worsen over time and spread to numerous areas around the U.S. Conservation of natural water sources is so important!!
Anyone who tries to teach niggas is a hero to me. I would not waste the time just pass them through.
That is sad.
This is happening in schools in Rhode Island, except bottled water isn't even being provided to the students. It's a nationwide issue
That's terrible.
I installed a reverse osmosis system in two homes. $100 each. Is this not an option?
The whole world are in the midst of a water crisis. Innovate America!! Raise the standards!!
Temperature is hitting 90 lol. That's a low where I live haha
If you're in southern us you're blessed with AC not all homes or even public buildings have it up north similarly you don't have snow plows or rock salt on standby come winter
Yeah but you have good water to drink & an a/c to run.
for a class room??? with 9 year olds sweating pools? U can't justify these type of conditions. How can someone possibly focus and give their full attention when they are dealing with extreme temperatures?? And on top that, they cant even drink water from the fountain....ARE U SERIOUS ?
Ian Cornell It got in Michigan and low in are state is 10 below 0 so DONT ha ha we get snow days what do you get oh day with hurricane have a nice day
Dani do you have snow days in the southern HA WE GET SNOW BETTER THEN TALKING A SHOWER EVER DAY
This is sad... I live in a town very close to Detroit, only about 45 mins away. Ugh why can’t we all just be happy and have clean water and just good stuff?? ;^( the us just isn’t such a great place anymore, it’s just going downhill...
AYe that was my old school in the beginning
I graduated... I'm miserable
that’s my old school lol
Ha. That nerdy lady is low key cute. :D
Why vice using music from arma3?
The Michigan House, Senate, Governor and Supreme Court are all Republican or Republican Majority. So it's not a partisan issue.
I go to this school-
Have Detroit schools ever not been in crisis?
That arena sure looks nice while the kids suffer tho
If the sinks and toilets still work, then they still have water.
America needs Great Water Again..........
man that thumbnail
I love 30 min from Detroit..... This is SAD -- the gov of detroit should be smacked in the face. I've been to some of the worst places in the world.. and they don't have this problem. Get your shit together Detroit Gov, fix education, schools and more.
Navijo nation has never had drinking water in the USA not even at home. Get you all some hand sanitizer..
Hopefully this issue will be solved by the time the first androids come off the production line...
BURTON IS MY SCHOOL
Did the 1st woman say she has 10 kids?
This comes as no surprise. It's "DIRT"ROIT for Buick's sake!
The government funding for schools is low... the schools need repair and fast. These children in some cases are in third world conditions.
she talked about the problems, but not why or how the arouse
This is not ok wth is going on these city officials have failed these children and its citizens Parents need to speak up just think he do they wash their dishes and clothes and take showers just because they are not drinking the water doesn't mean it won't affect their skin and hair ruin clothes etc.........
WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP??????????
K.Nicole anything people Michigan need anything like anything that California has we need a Michigan like summer all year round because half the people are really getting a house in warmer states to go there during the winter because it’s miserable here in the winter
Why aren’t people sympathetic anymore? These kids need help, stop shouting “sTop VotInG dEMocratic” And help your fellow man smh, there’s no love anymore I swear.
I just want to give them books and water and maybe my dad's house (I have 2 houses and my dad's house is bigger) but I can't because I live in New Jersey. And I feel bad ofr them
How can they not afford water when the U.S is one of the richest countries on the globe
This sounds like South Africa
ucuz12 well whites are 10% of detroit... this is what happens when you give infrastructure to africans, they don’t maintain anything
Poor Detroit :( Shame what happened there.
Tommy Reusse yes it’s not our schools is just a couple but how would I know I got a holtschools in Michigan
@@bryanzecchin9380 even though the South has houses and water sites with far higher levels of lead
Augustine Daudu and the south still has plenty of blacks?
@@bryanzecchin9380 no, it doesn't. It's majority-white, but does that mean all white people are bad? No. That idea is just racism
Augustine Daudu georgia alone is 30% black... michigan is 14% black... detroit happens to be 80% black, outside of the city it turns back to white
This country has a spending problem.
Damn another poor people problems. I feel bad.
Everyone is saying the same thing - give up meat and dairy and you'll be
part of the solution rather than part of the problem. A meat based
diet uses at least 20 times more water than a plant based diet. Most
people know this but are too stubborn, selfish and egotistical to
change. People hate feeling they're being dictated too, even tho
they're not. It's simply common sense. People say they want a future
for their children but fail to put their money where there mouth is.
It's very simple. Go vegan, live at least 10 years longer and you'll be
in less trouble with the Gods when you die too. Do it!
Serena?
I dont want to live on this planet anymore.
--Dr. Hubert Farnsworth
The entire City of Pittsburgh water supply is worse; considerably worse.
Make America great again huh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is the demographic of Detroit and who runs it? It all makes sense
The world is ending
This may sound harsh but I will believe the sincerity of the community when you can get equal comparison with the PTA meetings local elections and the football, basketball games
The have a Republican governor
When they said USA was the best country in the world
Look farther then your hands you will see the truth and the purpose
This will be the majority of America soon, what with the coming automation of most jobs. This is what happens when you allow private business interests to run things.
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Is this Wakanda?
jonathan smith No this is the US Michigan learn your states
Only state with Great Lakes only state with freshwaters it’s only the two cities Flint and Detroit that don’t have freshwater OK
Not even close😂😂 Wakanda is WAY better than the US.
Detroit problems go back to 1980s when Roger Moore moved GM production to Mexico. Watch the film "Roger & Me".
molly maul more like the 60s with riots
So sad to see what's happening in Africa still continues well atleast there english is a tad bit better now a days.
This is in the U.S.
HOLT MICHIGAN
🤦🏾♀️
But yet a lot of nestle bottle water comes from Michigan
T Smooth that is incorrect Nestlé water bottles come from the water run off of & in California which actually comes goes through a rubbery pipe into moving trucks.
@@Peacelove278 Google it
Everybody just needs to move out of Detroit.
Naturally Gifted Actually teach what was the first capital of Michigan so it’s actually like mostly important but no we had to move up at like nothings wrong with it it’s just that some schools don’t have freshwater because they’re not close to the freshwaters of the Great Lakes so yeah
oh the whites left 50+ years ago hence why it’s a shithole nowadays but whites still live around detroit in the suburbs
Still? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
How sad is this. Seriously.
Funny super power country running dry
Elect Republicans if you want the water crisis to end.
The solution is obvious and simple. They need to pass a capital improvement mil levy, just like my children's Michigan School District did. They should be able to fix the major problems with that money. As for the mice the fix is cheap and easy - a jar of peanut butter and a bunch of traps.
Stranded in Utah and you know it’s not just Michigan schools is just to try and put all of the schools are perfectly fine we got private schools pick up public schools we got academies and technically that is so where do you live in the US or do you not even live in the US so you can’t say anything about Michigan if you don’t live there but I do so I can talk all about want it
@@foxtalk6722 I live in Michigan.
Thank you liberal/Democrats
Progressive Democrats are known for their effectiveness in maintaining infrastructure and government function.
This is the power of Democrat rule.
trump is the president...hasnt done shit.
Atrocity
Wow US just wow 😑
we are one of the richest countries in the world why are we living as if we were in a third world!!
go to the white areas in metro detroit and it’s nice but when it’s black...
ben dover see I’ve heard that!! That is so fucked up!! Make the entire city nice not just certain parts. Or atleast make the bad sides decent or livable
Was that in Africa ..??
Are America ..?
Talk about make America great
You can thank democrats for this
Liberal city