578 Million Dollar School

[ShyGuyInChicago]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/08/24/mxp.half.billion.dollar.school.hln?hpt=C2

If this were my high school, I would never want to leave.

[Sage]

Hey, Los Angeles? This is why people fucking hate you.

[Amnesiac]

*sigh*

Can't we fix our broken curriculums and insane teachers first? What about flawed abstinence-only sex programs or simply abysmal teachers?

[DarkHorses]

That just seems like a huge waste of money. Why have such an extravagant school? As long as the kids have a good learning environment and good teachers it doesn't matter much what the interior of the school is like.

I bet the people who go there are nasty rich snobs anyways.

[huginnmuninn]

im sure that there are more important things that that money could have gone to

[INFERNO]

I love how the superintendent says he wants the school to be around for the next 150 years. At the price of $578 million, it sure as hell better be! I think it's stupid because you can make the school as beautiful as you want so the kids will want to go but you need good teachers. The school can be as fancy as possible, the teachers are going to be the same, unless they begin hiring university level math professors to teach grade 8 algebra. That money could've been used to a much better use other than making the fanciest school ever. Could've made some excellent learning resources that many schools could all use, updated many schools, build a good teaching college for teachers to be trained at, etc... . I'm going to laugh if the averages from this school is roughly the same as it is for other schools.

[Tiberius]

My school looks like a fucking prison compared to this, but we have over a 99% graduation rate and they don't.

[starbrite5]

This drives me crazy. That money would be put to much better use being spread across multiple, existing schools to improve the quality of the education and school lunches.

[Sugaree]

Did anyone else manage to see the pokeball at the 10 second mark?

Anyway, this is just fucking insanity. I am now convinced Los Angeles is a completely useless city.

[Perseus]

Did anyone else manage to see the pokeball at the 10 second mark?

Anyway, this is just fucking insanity. I am now convinced Los Angeles is a completely useless city.

Hollywood isn't use less, Matt. :P

[Atonement]

I understand that one of the major effects of state of the art facilities is to instill a sense of motivation and pride in their education. But why must it be at such an expense. That is the job of the teachers. Rather than blow all this money on this, why not hire, train, or replace teachers who can get into their students heads that they need their education. Even more so, if that money wanted to help facilities only, split it up for multiple renovation programs, because we know there are schools that need it.

By the way, I was kind of curious of the capacity.

[Continuum]

My school looks like a fucking prison compared to this, but we have over a 99% graduation rate and they don't.

Rich snobs and people here are distracted by the shiny floors and TVs :D

[Sordid Saint]

Hmm. Kind of shows how much of idiots we are since 578 Million dollars could have gone to better causes, like poverty, cancer research, and other things that we could benefit from. There's no difference between a regular school, and this besides looks and features that are useless. There IS, however, a difference between a regular school, and a school that is falling apart, that has terrible lunches, and with kids that aren't learning anything and don't have a future because they have a poor school. This much money couuld have fixed so many of those schools. THAT would have been a good investment. But noooo, they need to build a multi-million dollar Taj Mahal instead of turning places that no one learns into places that people go to good colleges from.

[Kahn]

Hmm. Kind of shows how much of idiots we are since 578 Million dollars could have gone to better causes, like poverty, cancer research, and other things that we could benefit from. There's no difference between a regular school, and this besides looks and features that are useless. There IS, however, a difference between a regular school, and a school that is falling apart, that has terrible lunches, and with kids that aren't learning anything and don't have a future because they have a poor school. This much money couuld have fixed so many of those schools. THAT would have been a good investment. But noooo, they need to build a multi-million dollar Taj Mahal instead of turning places that no one learns into places that people go to good colleges from.

Oh my...

When people have a choice, many would use the money for the betterment of themselves.

[Junky]

Hmmm i wonder why the LA school board has a 600ish million dollar deficit? This isn't a rich area either from what I remember, alot of low income kids.

Not to mention in the 2 mile radius around this school there are over 20 sex offenders, with crimes ranging from LEWD OR LASCIVIOUS ACTS WITH CHILD UNDER 14 YEARS all the way to RAPE BY FORCE/FEAR/ETC and KIDNAPPING/TO COMMIT. Most definetly not the safest place to put any school no matter what the cost. :what:

[BOBBY HILL]

wow, now still watch the drop out rate stay the same, adding all that fancy shit will distract the kids

[JimSauce]

What a colossal waste of money. They could have done so much with 578 million dollars, instead of building a fancy school that doesn't improve learning quality by that much.

(And yes, I wish my school had an upstairs heated olympic-sized swimming pool LOL.)