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kane · 05-08-2009, 03:44 PM

The school system in this country is breaking down. My brother sent all three of his kids to a private pre-school and that school still held fundraisers and to this day he gets letters from them every years asking for donations and asking them to come to fund raising auctions even though none of his kids are in school there. So it is not just public schools that are diving for money.

The idea is simple. If they can get the parents to pay for it they will because that is less money they have to take out of their budget. That said, schools seem to always find interesting and unique ways to waste money right after telling you they are broke. For example the high school I graduated from had no swimming pool. About 10 years after I graduated from there the city announced they were building a pool right across the street from the high school. They were going to make it Olympic size so the school could get a swim team. Great. The problem was the city fucked up (like it always seems to do) and they made the pool too small. So now you can't use it for competition. Instead of just canceling the swim team because they have no pool they go ahead and create a swim team. The team takes a school paid for buss 20 miles each way to the next town over and uses their pool. So the school pays for a driver and the cost of a bus 4 nights a week as well as the fees for the using the pool because they didn't want to disappoint the kids. Right after somehow funding this they say they can't put on a homecoming parade/dance like they always do because they have no money so unless the students can raise the money on their own there will be no homecoming parade and dance that year.

When I was in high school if you went out for a sport you had to buy your own shoes and jock strap, everything else was paid for by the school. Now it costs my brother about $700 a years for his daughter to play soccer and it was $500 for his son to play football. We have a thing in here called Outdoor School where they take 6th graders to an outdoor camp. When I went we did candy selling fundraisers and no matter how much (or little) was raised we still went for the week. Now they don't even bother with the fundraisers and just told my brother it was $300 and instead of going for a week it is 2 nights and 3 days.

But aside from the extras of sports and things like that the school system itself is flawed. They overpay administrators who have no idea what they are doing and half the time never show up for the meetings and they allow teachers who don't care to just stick around and collect a check. Instead of just throwing money at the problem (which is what every elected official seems to do) they need to do an audit of every school and see where they are wasting money then do away with that.I think the schools can be run better, it will just take a group of people with guts enough to stand up to the teachers union, parents and other administrators to get it done.

All this said I think the public school system is vital to this countries success. The minute we stop educating the kids is the minute we officially get on the fast track to becoming a third world shithole of a country.

05-08-2009, 03:44 PM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	The school system in this country is breaking down. My brother sent all three of his kids to a private pre-school and that school still held fundraisers and to this day he gets letters from them every years asking for donations and asking them to come to fund raising auctions even though none of his kids are in school there. So it is not just public schools that are diving for money. The idea is simple. If they can get the parents to pay for it they will because that is less money they have to take out of their budget. That said, schools seem to always find interesting and unique ways to waste money right after telling you they are broke. For example the high school I graduated from had no swimming pool. About 10 years after I graduated from there the city announced they were building a pool right across the street from the high school. They were going to make it Olympic size so the school could get a swim team. Great. The problem was the city fucked up (like it always seems to do) and they made the pool too small. So now you can't use it for competition. Instead of just canceling the swim team because they have no pool they go ahead and create a swim team. The team takes a school paid for buss 20 miles each way to the next town over and uses their pool. So the school pays for a driver and the cost of a bus 4 nights a week as well as the fees for the using the pool because they didn't want to disappoint the kids. Right after somehow funding this they say they can't put on a homecoming parade/dance like they always do because they have no money so unless the students can raise the money on their own there will be no homecoming parade and dance that year. When I was in high school if you went out for a sport you had to buy your own shoes and jock strap, everything else was paid for by the school. Now it costs my brother about $700 a years for his daughter to play soccer and it was $500 for his son to play football. We have a thing in here called Outdoor School where they take 6th graders to an outdoor camp. When I went we did candy selling fundraisers and no matter how much (or little) was raised we still went for the week. Now they don't even bother with the fundraisers and just told my brother it was $300 and instead of going for a week it is 2 nights and 3 days. But aside from the extras of sports and things like that the school system itself is flawed. They overpay administrators who have no idea what they are doing and half the time never show up for the meetings and they allow teachers who don't care to just stick around and collect a check. Instead of just throwing money at the problem (which is what every elected official seems to do) they need to do an audit of every school and see where they are wasting money then do away with that.I think the schools can be run better, it will just take a group of people with guts enough to stand up to the teachers union, parents and other administrators to get it done. All this said I think the public school system is vital to this countries success. The minute we stop educating the kids is the minute we officially get on the fast track to becoming a third world shithole of a country. Last edited by kane; 05-08-2009 at 03:46 PM..