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It is sad. A friend of mine has a daughter in 7th grade. About 5 years ago that school got a new superintendent and when he took over it was always on the verge of closing because of budget problems. He has done a good job and now has about 4 million dollars in a "rainy day fund" for the school. The problem is that most of the upkeep and stuff on the building has had to be neglected to save that money. So the option is that the kids can either go to a school that looks like a dump and uses older text books or they can have a school that could shut down at any time for any amount of time due to lack of funding.
The thing that pisses me off the most is that the district that this school is in has 12 different administrators each making over 150K a year and half of them have a less than 50% attendance records to the school board meetings. They are getting paid a very nice salary and don't even bother to show up for work half the time.
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