You do not undestand the accounting and funding of local school districts, Sir.
The local school district does not have FEDERAL funds in it’s bank account. Federal money is paid by the state treasury set up to handle those funds which are closely monitored.
The local school district has it’s own bank account to accept tax dollars from it’s district, set up locally from which it expends funds. The local school district does not have the ability to co-mingle those funds and spend it where ever they WANT to spend it.
It takes every dollar of your local tax dollars to pay teachers, buy books and supplies, and maintain school property. There is NEVER any EXTRA dollars!
New uniforms are usually purchased with donations from the local PTA, as well as band uniforms.
And YES, $444,000 is almost HALF a billion dollars which is quite a significant part of $1.1 billion.
You are obviously the product of government schools, and an excellent example of why they need to be done away with.