Damn Schools

**gprime** · April 7th '06

This is something that really irks me. Now, I've always gone to private school. But having this year moved to an area where the only such schools were Catholic, that was not an option (as my profile explains). So, that said, while I was aware of what to expect, I remain frustrated nonetheless when contrasting the two experiences. While the private schools I atteneded did spend a good deal of money on arts and athletics, they did so only after they'd set aside enough for the academic courses and needed materials such as extra textbooks in usable condition. This year, I'm attending public school in a supposedly rich district, yet the school claims to be underfunded, thus explaining the lack of resources and their inability to offer IB courses (forcing us to take either AP courses or dual enroll) as well as a number of other resource and course related issues. But in truth, they could easily fix this. How? Adjusting the flow of funds. The school poors way too much into its laughable athletic and underwhelming arts departments, thus shortchanging, Math, Science, English, History, and Foreign Language departments. Anybody else frustrated by having a similar issue at their high school?

**Brianna.** · April 15th '06

My school is really really poor.

We've got ONE social studies teacher...civics, US History, World History...everything.
One math teacher.
Two english teachers.

We can't even afford new computers...they've cut most of our general programs, math, science, ect.

It sucks. We don't even have a gym class because they can't afford a teacher.

And we only offer 3 sports.

**~~The Reaper~~** · April 15th '06

Similar problem here, but the other departments don't really suffer. My school is almost done building another gym (we already have 2) which cost over 3 million dollars. Nobody wanted the gym, but they made it anyway.

**gprime** · April 17th '06

The Reaper wrote:

Similar problem here, but the other departments don't really suffer. My school is almost done building another gym (we already have 2) which cost over 3 million dollars. Nobody wanted the gym, but they made it anyway.

In some respects that's more of a problem. A budget surplus could have been set aside to prepare for future expansion or need, or put to good use by expanding a course catalogue or upping teachers' pay.