1.5 Million dollars of taxpayer money missing due to CMS inadequacy (Charlotte: schools, price)
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Lets keep giving students 'free' computers, hotspots, etc. Why not? It just the taxpayers money.
Hope people keep this in mind when voting!
It was probably simply a shifting of allocations that parents (or accounting) need not know about. Schools don't need technology. Perhaps someone on the board thinks they should use the money on equity and sex ed for first graders.
You know once those Chromebooks have been used for 4-7 years they are no longer useful to pass along as a teaching tool to rising students. It is a continuing/recurring expense replenishing the technology for each generation of student.
Lets keep giving students 'free' computers, hotspots, etc. Why not? It just the taxpayers money. Hope people keep this in mind when voting!
It's not giving students free stuff, they have to return it at some point. If you read the article then you would see that CMS failed to keep track of who was in possession of which computer, and then failed to have those computers properly returned.
Some or most of those computers probably won't be returned because it's suggested that they were sold to other parties (pawn shops, online, etc.)
Yes, it's important to vote and ensure that CMS is well managed. But don't vote because you're outraged that someone attempted to improve the education access to students, especially during a pandemic.
"People get the Government they deserve" can be extended to include psudo- governmental bodies as well. These are the people many entrust to educate their children? Or enact policies which affect it?
Same votes, same support for the usual default beurocrats, same results; those in power reap the benefits, children and Society pay the price.
Be blind, be detached, then act outraged when Junior can't read or get a job.
[i]Some[i] of it isn't missing; $400,000.00 worth of clear backpacks are sitting in storage somewhere due to a California-mandated warning label.
Seems like everything made in California has that same cancer warning on the box. It is just a simply way for the manufacturers to cover their asses in case it ever does happen.
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