California: Finally Spending Smarterer'est

[ResearchMonkey]

LA unveils $578M school, costliest in the nation

LOS ANGELES – 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.


"There's no more of the old, windowless cinderblock schools of the '70s where kids felt, 'Oh, back to jail,'" said Joe Agron, editor-in-chief of American School & University, a school construction journal. "Districts want a showpiece for the community, a really impressive environment for learning."

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Sure glad we got all that extra money to pay the teachers unions.

I think I've seen this design before, it looks hauntingly familiar.

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[Gonz]

Maybe they could sell it back to Frank Llloyd Wright & open 478 schools that actually teach something that helps the kids. Give the change to Obama & Arnold.

 

[Winky]

or get the Government out of education altogether
and let private schools handle it? Even today I’m still
shocked and amazed (OK not really) by the results a
private education has had on my Son.

Best damned 80 grand I ever spent!

 

[Winky]

Fruits and nuts in California

this is what Bob thinks about a half a billion dollar high school

 

[Altron]

It's just a sham to impress people.

By far, the most important aspect in the classroom is the teacher. Not the quality of the furnishings, or of the books, or of the technology. It's still the teacher.

With so many teacher lay-offs recently, this is a giant middle finger to any laid-off teacher who lost his or her job because someone needed to make room in the budget for a fancier school.

 

[Gonz]

After seeing where they put it, we can all rest easier. It's in the SE Asia section of LA.