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Los Angeles Unveils $578 Million Public School
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from an Associated Press report on next month's opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools in Los Angeles:
"With an eye-popping price tag of $578 million, it will mark the inauguration of the nation's most expensive public school ever. The K-12 complex to house 4,200 students has raised eyebrows across the country as the creme de la creme of 'Taj Mahal' schools, $100 million-plus campuses boasting both architectural panache and deluxe amenities. ... At RFK, the features include fine art murals and a marble memorial depicting the complex's namesake, a manicured public park, and a state-of-the-art swimming pool. 'There's no more of the old, windowless cinderblock schools of the '70s where kids felt, "Oh, back to jail,"' said Joe Agron, editor-in-chief of American School & University, a school construction journal. 'Districts want a showpiece for the community, a really impressive environment for learning.' ... Critics note that nearly 3,000 teachers have been laid off over the past two years, the academic year and programs have been slashed, the district faces a $640 million shortfall and some schools persistently rank among the nation's lowest performing."
Did you actually read what was written?
Let schools go to hell, because I can educate my child just fine.
Well, we let that happen once already.
Perhaps you don't remember the 'race riots' but I do.
They more clearly can be seen as 'economic riots'.
If and when large swaths of people in this country percieve that, yup, it is TOTALLY apparent that no one cares, and that there is almost no way to rise above your economic station, and that it's just getting worse every year...
what do YOU think is going to happen?
I already know what HAS happened in these circumstances.
50 years? Yup, that's plenty of time to see this.
It is simply the result of small minded policies and mean spirited people.
Regards.