General Discussion

My wife taught special ed in Texas, in a basement classroom next to the boiler room, with the pipes running along the ceiling. In upstairs classrooms, they had strung chicken wire across the ceilings, because of leaks which caused plaster chunks to fall down and hit kits in the head. They did not have the budget to purchase everything their kids needed. But by golly, that district had a multi-million dollar football field complex. Built in a town where the school district had a total population of about 12,000, the stadium held 6,500. They got big crowds, but not that big, maybe half on a really good night during a great season. And keep in mind, these stadiums are used for less than half of a school year, and technically, just 5 or 6 nights out of 365. That's a bigger waste of money than a megachurch auditorium.