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My town's school system... (RANT)

M

MacBaine

Banned
Ok, so here is the deal. My town has been growing a lot in the last about 5 years, so the school's are getting pretty full. About 1 year and a half ago, a referendum was put up to vote on a tax hike to fund an expansion. There were two parts, first, was the hike for the building, and second for the teachers and equipment to put in it. Long story short, the hike for the building was approved, and the hike for the staff was defeated. Hmm. Well so earlier this year they began the expansion of my high school, and the referendum went up for vote again last year to try and get the funding for the staff. Again, it was defeated. Now, in 4 days it will be voted upon again. You may think I want it to be approved, being a student of the school that it is for... but quite the contrary, I am very opposed to it. Here is why... (this is the part that makes me furious):

- The Superintendant will recieve a $100,000 a year raise. When he was told at a board meeting that if he instead put that money toward the school district, the entire town would be behind him, he responded saying, "No, I wan't my bonus " *smirk*. He currently makes about $120,000 a year and does little more thawhine about how we don't have enough money.

- When deciding which contractor to go with for the project, the school board based their decision on "presentations" given by the contractors, and then made up their minds by "which one looked the best". Not one of the school board members is an engineer qualified to make an intelligent decision. When a 20 year engineer working as a teacher for the district volunteered to help, they literally fought against him all the way and eventually drove him out.

- The "Pride and Joy" of the new expansion to the high school is a new auditorium. Fine, right? Actually, it will cost roughly $450 a SQUARE FOOT for a 9,000 square foot auditorium, which is SMALLER than our existing auditorium, and has 200 MORE seats.

- The construction, which began a few months ago, is already $750,000 over budget due to incompetant decisions made by the school board.

- The Superintendant stated at a board meeting, that if the referendum didn't pass, he would "Fire teachers...so that the parents will feel it be sorry".


These are only a few things on the long list. Being 17, I cannot vote, which fills me with rage. Also, our school newspaper had a "Different Opinions" section today about the referendum, and I KNOW several people wrote very intelligent articles. Of course, the only opinions included were that of the well known Pro-Referendum members of the school. I think I am going to make up sone "A Vote Yes is a vote for HITLER" signs and plaster the lawns with them. God...makes so mad!
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I hear ya. My school board is full of idiots. Just this year, they have hired about 5 new security guards (15 total) for my high school, and fired about 10 teachers (about 80 teachers to 2,500 students now). Guards get paid roughly two to three times what teachers make, and serve no useful purpose.

Because of how expensive guards are and the general hatred they cause among our school, district budgets have plummetted. So now they've cut out all middle school sport and foreign languege programs, hoping to turn a buck. And they've secured a small grant next year that will force the entire school to have closed campus, which will result in more security guards being hired and the school will eventually be forced to build a new cafeteria.
 
schools are run by idiots, it's universal. My school bought some 'new' pc's last year(500mhz celerons) and paid about $500 more per machine than they should have, even more if they got a discount for bulk buys. The school puts in money to paint lockers instead of repairing bathrooms and fixing parts of the building which are nearly falling down. Why do they spend $800 to paint some lockers instead of repairing stuff? because the board has given them a certain percentage of the budget to allocate to each project, and some idiot thought painting lockers would be a good idea(on a side not, they didn't even do it right! they painted latex paint over top of the existing oil paint, so all the lockers and doors are peeling)


 


<< they painted latex paint over top of the existing oil paint, so all the lockers and doors are peeling) >>



Much like how they put a fresh coat of money over the problems instead of actually fixing them... eventually it fails and the problem still lies underneath
 
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