Your school just got a $1 million donation.

<p>Well… my school just had a twenty-million dollar capital campaign.</p>

<p>They decided to spend it on: a new gym, a new cafeteria, and a new upper school.</p>

<p>It supposedly included endowments for future scholarships… but I’m kind of doubtful. The cafeteria opened my ninth grade year. The gym will open my senior year (next year) and the upper school will open the year I’m a freshman in college. <em>facepalm</em></p>

<p>What should they have spent it on? Maybe uniforms for sports teams… band instruments… I don’t know. Whatever… at least it isn’t a school in debt.</p>

<p>[Sorry…But we have issues at my school with funding… they only fund what the donors want them to fund… which is nice in a way… but we’ve got a pretty ghetto school building with ceiling tiles falling out, old computers, and another large amount of problems that should probably be addressed before getting new buildings…]</p>

<p>But yeah… just a million? They’d use it to somehow ‘improve’ the school. Although, I wish they’d use it for scholarships or at least tuition reduction… Tuition jumped this year.</p>

<p>Well, we bought a new flashy sign on the road leading to my school (which is in a rural area and completely ruins the “mood” of the area).</p>

<p>What else could we waste money on???</p>

<p>If my school received money it would be used on something ridiculous and nothing for academics or extracurricular activities . . .</p>

<p>^I * may * be moving to your city. :open_mouth: </p>

<p>Or I * may * be moving to a city 15 minutes away from mine…i’d still attend * my * school.</p>

<p>Our alumni give a lot more than that I think. So, I guess we would add it to the money they already give and use it for the improvements we are currently building. And the donor would get a place rather high up on our donor list.</p>

<p>Probably putting it back into the budget, that’s almost the amount we lost in state aid this year.</p>

<p>Text books, we kinda need 'em. Also just more funding for the AP and IB and pay for teachers.</p>

<p>give the money back to the taxpayers</p>

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<p>Furlough days are when the all the schools in a district close for at least a day in order to save funds and teachers receive no pay. It’s a real “last resort” kind of thing for places that are screwed financially, like the California public school system.</p>

<p>Build a pool build a pool build a pool build a pool build a pool build a pool build a pool we need one so bad</p>

<p>Tennis courts! They promised that for years! (even just 2 would be fine…! well, 4 preferably :P)</p>

<p>more languages! Japanese! Korean! Chinese! German! Russian!</p>

<p>Slides. From the second floor to the first. Not just one, like 20 of them. Or, integrated slides that go right into classrooms from classroom to classroom or hallway to classroom.</p>

<p>My school district is incredibly wealthy. Since the economy has gone the drain, they have spent money on:</p>

<ul>
<li>A new wing of classrooms, with two stories (this is the first time there’s been stairs at our school, because it is just really spread out lol)</li>
<li>A new outdoor area to have lunch</li>
<li>A new sign at the entrance</li>
<li>These special metal things that are supposed to block light in the front of the room by the Smartboard without having to turn off the lights (surprise, surprise, doesn’t work)</li>
<li>Tearing down two wings and the library and adding a brand new, two story library (it’s going to be like a Borders, I imagine)</li>
<li>Renovating an old wing that is like 60 years old</li>
<li>A new baseball field</li>
<li>A new music hall</li>
<li>etc.</li>
</ul>

<p>In the few years before the recession they built a new gym, a new pool, a new football field, and a new wing.</p>

<p>Despite all these new classrooms, they still can’t seem to find rooms for the teachers in the trailers that have been teaching there for over 10 years (when they were installed they were supposed to be “temporary”)</p>

<p>This is all just in my high school. There are three other high schools, about five middle schools, and a plethora of elementary schools as well. If you can’t tell yet, my district is pretty affluent, and doesn’t really know how to spend money very well.</p>

<p>^ my public school district sounds like that…</p>

<p>We have 3 “senior” high schools (11+12), and 6 (I think) “junior high schools” (9+10), a dozen middle schools, and like 4 dozen elementary schools. the high schools are HUGE! one has like, a lake, another has 5 3+ story buildings (large too)…</p>

<p>It’s known for rich people, but there are a lot more middle income families then rich…</p>

<p>Save some of the people who are being laid off at the end of the year (18 people from a school system of less than 2,000 kids PK-12…that’s like an entire school there…). Because, you know, I kinda need teachers and if they’re laying them all off, I won’t have them…</p>

<ol>
<li>Enhance plumbing and bathrooms.</li>
<li>Hire a better food service. prices don’t need to be lowered much, it’s just that the quality AND quantity needs to improve. Since nonseniors aren’t allowed to eat lunch outside of school, and most can’t bring in their own lunches, they rely entirely on school food for lunch. Quantity (by quantity, I mean number of food service areas) needs to improve in order to shorten lunch lines. Many people spend about 20-25 minutes of their 40 minute lunch period waiting in lines.</li>
<li>Fund more extracurricular clubs</li>
<li>Hire more teachers in areas that need help</li>
<li>SAVE/invest it. (But really, after #4, there won’t really be any money left, because $1 million is like nothing compared to the combined salaries of teachers)</li>
</ol>

<p>invest it, or host an atrociously extravagant alumni luncheon… :/</p>

<p>All of your high schools should build a statue of me.</p>

<p>My school had a million dollar donation, it spent it on making the school “technologically advanced”. That money shoulda went to installing some ACs it gets so hot and humid by May, you just can’t pay attention in class. A few people passed out because of this.</p>

<p>Ha our school is over $6 million in debt. So…cut it back to $5 million?</p>