Of course most of it is due to outrageous salaries, pensions, unnecessary bureaucracy, and typical large institution waste...
But I'm continually wondering how government schools can waste so much money, how the schools in our tony town of Manhasset, NY can be spending upwards of $26,000 per pupil these days. (They underperform spectacularly too!)
Recently I was stricken with another insight while I was urinating on the local elementary edifice.
I looked up and spotted all these security cameras above me!
In fact, they surround the entire building every 40-50 feet. You know....so no one breaks in and steals construction paper, eraser-less number 2 pencils, and the hundreds of *be green* posters in the school.
I mean this security system had to cost a million dollars to buy and install - probably at each of the schools. Then you have the costs to run and maintain it. Are they freakin' recording every second of each day? I wouldn't bet against it.
Ten vandalizing kids with baseball bats couldn't do $1 million worth of damage, so why all the *security*?
Recall last year I discovered these in the school hallways:
WHY??? And how much do they cost???
Everything about these so-called schools is ridiculous. I just don't know why earthlings continue to put up with them.
For crying out loud I recently heard that in our town, if your child has an allergy,....that one of their parents MUST accompany them on all school field trips or they can't go.
And this wasn't a political statement or anything.
There are hundreds of people at the school on Sundays for youth soccer. Since they won't open the bathrooms in the school (a money problem?)....everyone - moms too! - is sneaking out back to pee, all day long. How's that for earth stewardship???
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Sneaking out back just saves on fertilizer costs. See they had a plan.
I like how they all have *astro-turf* fields now. The rationale is always, "It's cheaper to pay $1 million upfront than to pay for (union) maintenance of grass that gets torn up by cleats..."
But no matter what they do it ends up being a stupendous waste of money.
How about having the football and soccer teams maintain the grounds they use???
An AED is about $1800 a pop, plus another $300-400 in installation costs/training.
Thanks David,
I'm sure they are up and down the hallways, at every school, and need to be *updated* every few years!
Have they been used?
I sincerely doubt it.
The school nurse probably needs a notarized letter from parents before administering too. They let you die there otherwise for fear of legal ramifications.
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