Proposed new high school. Cost = $10,411
Recently our school district asked us to approve a new $60 million (say like Mike Myers in Austin Powers) high school.
I'm sort of curious why it costs $60 million to build a high school, which is over half what it cost to build a state-of-the-art professional sports arena. (Which, when publically financed, are boondoggles, but that's another story.)
Why is it that kids got better educations fifty years ago with less technology and infrastructure? How is that children learned to read in one-room classrooms when the McGuffey Reader was de rigeur?
Why not pay teachers $200K a year and have them teach in heated tents? I bet the education would be better because it's teachers who teach, not buildings.
Proposed annual salary for this man: $201,200
Disclaimer: I am not a teacher and thus have no inherent conflict of interest. No school buildings were harmed in the making of this post.
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