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What a waste of money. You would think a school district could find a better place to spend $60 million than a damn football stadium. Like on stuff that would actually impact student learning, maybe.
Actually, Allen is an affluent area and an excellent school academically, too. It's not like we're talking about Odessa back in the 80s. A lot of the revenue goes back to academics. They were the top team in Texas two years in a row, and top 5 nationally. I guess the community thought it was a worthwhile investment.
Not all powerhouse teams think a like, though. In Katy, just outside Houston, voters in their powerhouse football district voted down an extravagant new stadium last year.
It isn't just Texas that wastes tons of money on high school and college sports. The highest paid public employee in my state? Maybe the governor or attorney general? A university professor that's an international leader in his field? Surgeon General? Nope-the glorified gym teacher that runs the university football program-by a wide margin. That's true in a lot of states. Our priorities with taxpayer money are just effed.
It isn't just Texas that wastes tons of money on high school and college sports. The highest paid public employee in my state? Maybe the governor or attorney general? A university professor that's an international leader in his field? Surgeon General? Nope-the glorified gym teacher that runs the university football program-by a wide margin. That's true in a lot of states. Our priorities with taxpayer money are just effed.
This. It's a joke. Why people need these extravagant salaries is beyond me.
I don't know if you're stupid or a liar but while more money doesn't guaranty success lack of money most certainly does guaranty failure. You're a fool if you think other wise.
I don't know if you're stupid or a liar but while more money doesn't guaranty success lack of money most certainly does guaranty failure. You're a fool if you think other wise.
We spend more per student than any country on earth. Yet our test scores in nearly every category are below par. More money isn't the solution, a new system is. Throwing more money at a failed system, administrators and teachers that aren't performing is foolish. Expecting the taxpaying public to continue to support this level of failure even more so.
I don't know if you're stupid or a liar but while more money doesn't guaranty success lack of money most certainly does guaranty failure. You're a fool if you think other wise.
I just don't see evidence of the money thing as being a game changer. In our state we have a top 10 in the nation high school and a bottom 10 in the nation. The bottom 10 high school gets more than three times the amount of money than then top 10 one. If money were the problem, the problem school issues would be solved. I think it's a larger, less tangible issue - culture and value of educational attainment of the student body.
I don't know if you're stupid or a liar but while more money doesn't guaranty success lack of money most certainly does guaranty failure. You're a fool if you think other wise.
Typical liberal response. Throw money at it and everything will be fine and don't forget to say nasty things about the person who does not agree with you.
Why? The teachers aren't the ones who approved this. This is Texas, why not just tax the people who use the stadium to fix the mistake.
YEP, this is Texas - how about instead of "taxing" people, we get the folks who built this stadium to correct their mistakes AND take a look at why they got permits for a Stadium that didn't meet minimum Code? The "Tax" part was a done deal when the city of Allen passed a bond election to build the Stadium - the people of Allen have every right to assume the Stadium will be built correctly to Code.
I'm calling BS, this is impossible. This stadium was built by union workers...
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