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To: Red in Blue PA
this comes out to $138,000 per student.

No logic points for you.

Assuming the building lasts for 12 years, then there will be 4200 DIFFERENT students in there, for a total of 8400.

I'll grant you that it's an atrocious amount of money, but your numbers aren't right.

20 posted on 08/23/2010 11:25:56 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Your numbers are not entirely right.

My numbers only looked at this year yes, but the cost per studnet is approx $10,000 per student per year in ongoing costs, so your costs drastically undercount the real cost.


24 posted on 08/23/2010 11:27:50 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Anti-Gunners suffer from Factose Intolerance)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Well your math needs work too... if the school has 4200 students and is K-12 and is in operation for 12 years the number of “different” students would only be 8050 [4200 +(11*350)]. It would have to be in operation 13 years to reach the 8400 level. But given that... the cost of per child over the 13 year period would still be almost $69,000. This is also assuming there is no maintenance to the building.

Overall the point is that in budget strapped times how in the heck do we justify spending like this on public facilities of any kind?


48 posted on 08/23/2010 12:15:11 PM PDT by DieNarrin (Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity!)
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