As described in the Nov. My expectations are quite low. MDOT's expertise is the movement of cars and trucks β not healing old racial wounds of 70 years ago. The proposed super-wide surface-level boulevard may satisfy traffic planners, but it does nothing to resolve two of the most vexing problems facing Detroit: successful responses to its fraught racial history, and its current inability to provide a viable public transit system that allows residents and suburbanites an attractive alternative to the private automobile.
This may be Motown, but before freeways in the s and s destroyed so many neighborhoods to facilitate white flight, this city had an extensive system of streetcars and bus routes that were an excellent alternative to the congestion, pollution and cost of private car ownership. MDOT doesn't have a clue about how the creatively resolve either issue. Hence, my low expectations. I am currently an adolescent sexual health educator in different cities in southeast Michigan.
I am only allowed to teach in the districts that have a fully functional sex ed advisory board, severely limiting the youth I am able to teach. The majority of students in Detroit and southeast Michigan are only taught HIV education briefly, as this is the only requirement per state law.
There is no law regarding mandatory comprehensive sex education. The result of this lack in public policy is an influx of adolescents that do not have knowledge of how their bodies work, how to protect themselves, as well as speak up for themselves.
Advocating for youth starts with equipping them with necessary information for their future, and policies and laws are the first step in doing so. Should Michigan sex ed laws change? Submit a letter to the editor at freep.
