Detroit Public Television will air a new documentary by local
Oscar-winning filmmaker Sue Marx on Nov. 28. The film focuses on Math
Crops, a math camp held every summer at Wayne State University for
Detroit Public School students between seventh and 12th grades.
Excerpt:
Math Corps draws its students from Detroit Public Schools. If the
camp can fire up the minds of hundreds of them for 16 straight summers,
shouldn't a version of this program be in every DPS school by now?
"The
Math Corps from the beginning has never been about math," Kahn says in
the film. "This is a program that was born out of just looking around
in the city in which we live and work and seeing just tremendous
injustice, tremendous sadness; as people we felt we needed to do
something about this."
That's the mind-set Detroiters ought to demand from their school leaders.
"Caring about kids is something that I don't see as my monopoly," Kahn says. "There are plenty of people who can do this."
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