By now everyone must know that the Los Angeles Unified School District has opened a new school building that cost $578 million. The district had already built several schools that exceeded well over $100 million each. All this by a school district that has a 50 percent dropout rate.
Now you know why I call it Kookfornia. The school officials behind this ‘Taj Mahal’ building spree have taken leave of their senses. Just another reason why the whole state is on the verge of bankruptcy. If you spend money like a drunken sailor, which is exactly what Kookfornia has done, you’re going to find it’s all gone when you sober up.
The LAUSD justifies the $578 million school by explaining that it was part of a bond measure approved by the voters. If any of you have ever read one of these bond measures in your school district you know that it can be quite confusing if not deliberately misleading.
Besides that, our country is full of stupid voters. Didn’t they elect Obama? They bought all that ‘hope and change’ shit, and what they got was a cat and dog fight between Democrats and Republicans, questionable health care reform, a dismal economy and a high unemployment rate.
Earlier this year I wrote WASTING OUR SCHOOL DOLLARS (2-18-10) about the building of extravagant school buildings. But the buildings I was complaining about did not cost anywhere near $100 million.
Whoa there. A light just clicked on in my head. It just occurred to me what those Los Angeles school officials were really thinking in building schools that cost several hundred million dollars each. It was their clever way of reducing that 50 percent dropout rate. By building those palaces with all their deluxe amenities, the students in those buildings will want to remain there instead of dropping out. And I thought those school officials were a bunch of educated idiots.
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