Originally Posted by DrChango

the funds request is ridiculous, and even more so is the fact that there is not drinking water in the classroom through a fountain or sink.
Part of my time in elementary school was spent here in Arizona (went to Nebraska for a long time but came back) and every classroom had a water fountain in it and the teachers would line us up both before and after recess and randomly throughout the day to make us drink water.

The situation in California is absurd, and part of it stems from a stupid ballot initiative from some three decades ago when caps were put on property taxes in several areas (some of them very posh). The end result is a person with a decent sized house with a generous (though not excessive) yard in Nebraska pays more on their property taxes annually than someone living in Bel Air, California. Where do they get the resources to run schools when property taxes are kept low because of an old law that wasn't properly thought out?