unfortunately, more trouble at this school. we need better responses from connected offiicials - it does have a big impact on the surrounding community.

Correction: Valedictorian!

Almost to the point of needing a couple dedicated squad cars just to keep an eye on this place.

Tell me again, what is the upside of providing free educations to people who don't live in our city again?

At lease this time they were fist fighting and not shooting each other.

You ask what is the upside to providing free educations to people who don't live in Ferndale? The only people benefitting are the police because the constant crime which results in arrests keeps their skills sharp!

5 students arrested and an injured administrator does not sound like just a little dust up! Don't forget that these students are adults and that this student body is infiltrated with gang members...with guns... 2 arrested not long ago! This is not good news for the District or for the neighborhood.

The cons of keeping this school going in our community seem to be outweighing the "pro's" -- we all hope and pray that nothing really bad or serious happens with this school, its students or faculty members. A very close eye needs to be kept on the school, in view of the recent incidences -- by the police and the city leaders. It makes those of us living in the general area a bit more "on guard" -- and we shouldn't have to feel this way because of the presence of the school and the potential risks it may create in the neighborhood. Sad, but probably true.

This was all caused by the Republican sequester.

Maybe the Superintendent and his long list of Assistants will use these incidents to write a chapter in their book of "How to Operate a Charter School" subsidized by the school district.

The sad part, if the school does close. Recent, laws will allow a charter school company to come in and take over and students from Detroit can attend schools in Oakland Count. Funny part, Detroit needs students.
If this continues, the Dales will fall and become more of a Royal Oak Township. A solution, school officals need to close the school. It needs to reopen as an international elementary pre school to K and expand the following year to 1st, 2nd grade, and continue on to 5th grade.

Typical comments from the uninformed public. Quick to comment with little or no knowledge of what actually happened. Why doesn't anyone question the sources of these accounts? Did anyone get the staff's version of what happened, or do they just take the police's slanted view of what transpired? The tendency to judge and ignorantly opine is a sad commentary on our society.

Mr. Kerr.....really?? "The police's slanted view of what transpired?" There is a dedicated police officer inside the school who was an eye witness to the most recent criminal behavior. You call that a slanted view? Many other past crimes which resulted in arrests must surely be the result of slanted investigations too, huh? You are the most uninformed person of all. Since you already know that the police see everything in slanted views, don't call them if you ever become a victim of one of these gang member's crimes. You are clueless.

Well, well. Another prison riot at Taft Correctional. Enough is enough. This " learning center" is nothing but a cancer in the neighborhood, a center for gang activity, and a drain on our police resources. This situation is beyond ridiculous. And yes, Mr Kerr is clueless.

it's headed for a crisis. even with police intervention, we have students from all over the metro area who are at-risk. - who already had trouble in their respective high schools, put together at this location. things aren't really getting better. it just seems one incident after another. can't these schools be more localized, so at least the community feels that they are assisting their own young people/students?

I have lived across from this school for more than 4 years. I don't have anything against alternative schools or this one in particular. I know most students are there to earn their HS credits.The unusual level of violence there should be further addressed in peer group meetings and additional mandatory conflict resolution classes. Any hint of aggression amoung students should be dealt with severely, and security should be upgraded accordingly. Only serious students need apply. If these needs cannot be met and Ferndale Schools are not capable of this challenge , the school should be closed.

Enough with the social engineering.
Scrape Taft and Wilson and throw both buildings in the dumpster. The housing market is strong right now as there is a seller's market with a shortage of listings. Sell both properties to private developers, which is what should have been done all along with Taft and Wilson.

Relocate the "Digital Learning Center" to the northwest corner of the City, which votes predominately liberal. Sounds fair to me.

Mr. Kerr, apparently you have not attended any of the meetings regarding the DLC. I guess the DLC was uniformed too when they hired a full-time police officer to "patrol" this school.

Mr. Kerr, since you are so informed.....obtain police reports of all incidents that have occurred at the DLC. Then after reading them, try to have the nerve to respond by post that the police versions; victim's versions; and witnesses versions are all "slanted." Ask the student who was shot if he has a slanted version of what transpired. Ask the victim at the bus stop that was robbed at gun point if he has a slanted version of what transpired. My advice to you is: Don't do any of this.......Keep distrusting the police who have slanted viewpoints regarding everything. Me? I pray the police presence around the DLC increases a thousand percent!

See, I have attended meetings at the Digital Learning Center, listened to both sides and been very, very patient. Enough is enough. I guess it's going to take someone actually getting killed up there in order to validate the many concerns that I've been hearing. I have been patient even though my own children have had dangerous experiences up there, but at least for me, I've had enough. I will actively pursue shutting it down and support any efforts to do so. Obviously, the administrators up there cannot control that environment, case and point an administrator being injured in this LATEST violent incident.

Not only are their fights at Taft but at the High School, where it appears to be no control, what next the elementary before someone (administrators recognize that their is a growing problem)

time to start a petition to shut it down?

What steps are needed to remove this school and will another school take its place?