No worries...the feds will bail out CA. It’s just a matter of time. After all, CA is too big to fail.
Half a billion dollars for one school?!?!!??
WTF-—Over?????
What recession?
You taxpayers just need to turn up the spigot. :)
That’s almost $140K/student. With a 5% interest-only mortgage, that’s $7K/student/year, just for the building, not including maintenance and utilities. No wonder California’s broke.
Tar and feathers should be making a comeback about now.
Hey, it cost a lot of money to turn young skulls full of
mush into good little neo-Marxist Obots.
“New buildings are nice, but when they’re run by the same people who’ve given us a 50 percent dropout rate, they’re a big waste of taxpayer money.....”
Good summation if there ever was one.
L.A. = Beirut.
With an eye-popping price tag of $578 million,
1. They already had a building and it still cost that much?
2. I wonder how much it would cost to turn the Texas Schoolbook Depository into a school.
Will this be like the South LA hospital called the MLK hospital
that cost half a billion dollars in 1984
and stands empty today.
Do you know why?
I’ll bet you can guess but you will not find the answer on Google...
How in the world were kids ever able to learn to read, write, and cipher in simple one-room schoolhouses? I mean, without computers on every desk, giant TVs in every room, Olympic-size swimming pools, and Astroturf playing fields, how is it even possible to learn the simplest of subjects?
What will they do to top this extravagance?
The pricey schools have come during a sensitive period for the nation's second-largest school system: Nearly 3,000 teachers have been laid off over the past two years, the academic year and programs have been slashed. The district also faces a $640 million shortfall and some schools persistently rank among the nation's …
What are they thinking - it’s only money?
Couldn't that goal be better accomplished by graduating students who are proficient in the three "Rs"? The only thing the building is a showcase for, is the architect and builder.
Biggest waste of money ever.
Here is what they SHOULD of done.
They should of spent 78 Million building the school, then put the other 500 Million in a CD drawing 5% interest which would of made them 25 Million a year in interest. With that 25 Million a year they could of hired 200 college level professors with PhD’s to teach the 4,000 students there with a class size of 20 kids per teacher and paid them $100,000 each AND still had 5 million a year for other expenses like utilities. If they had done this... they would still have the 500 Million and probably would of been able to cut school district property taxes and would of had the best teachers in the nation teaching their kids.
A building never taught anyone anything, the teachers are the critical component.
Can’t wait to see their “artistic” gang grafiti!
I can’t wait to see this bumper sticker in LA!
MY Son Is A Dropout From The
Robert F. Kennedy Community School!
Sure, but that’s 4200 students, approx a mere $137,619.05 per student, probably amortized over a period of years — and the best part, everyone gets to pay for it, so it’ll only run a couple of bucks a head.