You just wish your high school had this

For $120 million, how many deserving needy kids could be brought into this district for classes ever day? Just asking.

 

FWIW, the Galveston school district, which is still recovering from Hurricane Ike (the great forgotten hurricane), has a bond election in a month on whether to build a $35 million multi-purpose stadium.

 

So the stadium's price tag by itself is less than $120 million. It includes a new auditorium and service center, but still...

I'm guessing that measure doesn't pass without the big ol' staidum as part of the deal.

Can someone smarter than me explain how a "bond proposal" works? That's not a tax, right? Or is it?

 

Yes, it's a tax. That's why it's going on the ballot.

 

Good ol' taxes.

Hey, maybe this is a new way for Texas towns to get funding they need.

"We're going to propose a new tax that will fund a new fancy, state-of-the-art stadium for our high school (cough, cough) and a new community health center, and more funding for public service projects and to help the poor (cough, cough)."

 

The stadium will cost roughly $60 million according to a PDF file found through Google. The auditorium 23 million. The "transportation maintenance & student nutrition center" will cost $36.5 million. The bond was approved by 63% of voters.

If the people paying the taxes are the ones that vote to approve the taxes, I don't see a problem...

 

The musta done a helluva job selling this onee to the voters. That or the voters are hellyva stupid and looking to win the annual Texas Dick Measuring Competition with this stadium. The district I currently live in just spent $7 million on a new stadium after the fire marshal shut down the old one and people are STILL complaining and calling it a Taj Mahal.

 

The two practice fields in the upper right look pretty sweet too. According to a couple rating web sites, the school ranks in the 80th percentile of Texas schools so it's not like they're slacking on the academics.

 

Students in the end zone? I mean, this is where they go to school, right?

 

Those are noble ideas, to be sure. I don't think you can pay for them with bond issues, though.

 

Don't show this link/story to anyone associated with education in New Jersey, otherwise they might redefine the meaning of the phrase "going postal."

In a country where jobs are leaving left and right and has an industrial base that's withered into a pathetic sham of its former self, shit like this makes me vomit. A facility like this is completely, absolutely un-necessary when built with taxpayer money. If some deep-pocketed alum footed the bill, fine, that's his own money. This country is placing too much emphasis on sports at every level; pros, college, preps and youth. I'm sure that this money could have been better spent on increasing teacher salaries, teacher staffing, resources, improving vo-tech schools, etc.

Maybe I'm this pissed off because I live in NJ and a couple of my friends are now sweating about their job security because the damned NJEA won't accept a ONE YEAR FREEZE IN RAISES AND WON'T CHIP IN TO HEALTH INSURANCE, but this is beyond ridiculous. I hope that after the first game, when everyone has left that stadium, it crumbles to the ground.

 

Word.