Its like they think we’re not bankrupt:
Next month’s opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was assassinated in 1968. With an eye-popping price tag of $578 million, it will mark the inauguration of the nation’s most expensive public school ever.
The K-12 complex to house 4,200 students has raised eyebrows across the country as the creme de la creme of “Taj Mahal” schools, $100 million-plus campuses boasting both architectural panache and deluxe amenities…
The news report goes on to note several other profligate, white elephants in the LA school district – and reports, as if its shocking, that a lot of the most expensive schools are in low-performing school districts. Might come as a shock to an MSMer, but to anyone living in the real world, its easy – of course that is the case…the reason they have $578 million schools is because they are failing system. A system run successfully would never dream of wasting that much money on a mere school building.
We teeter on the edge of complete financial meltdown – and Los Angeles is spending more than half a billion dollars on a school. They just laid off 3,000 teachers – and they are spending more than half a billion dollars on a school. They just got a federal bail out – and they are spending more than half a billion dollars on a school.
Does anything else need be said? Is more proof required that the Ruling Class must be shown the door?
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