What in the world did Eleanor Roosevelt ever do to deserve having her face on money? She married a president. That's her claim to fame. Why not put Lady Bird Johnson on the $5? Stupid.SuperJail Warden wrote:
They are also putting Eleanor Roosevelt and MLK on the $5.
They should have put Pocahontas on the $20 and took Jackson off. That would have been perfect. also
Jay wrote:
What in the world did Eleanor Roosevelt ever do to deserve having her face on money? She married a president. That's her claim to fame. Why not put Lady Bird Johnson on the $5? Stupid.SuperJail Warden wrote:
They are also putting Eleanor Roosevelt and MLK on the $5.
They should have put Pocahontas on the $20 and took Jackson off. That would have been perfect. also
in fairness to you though, i had to check wikipedia. so your point still semi stands.Following her husband's death, Roosevelt remained active in politics for the rest of her life. She pressed the United States to join and support the United Nations and became its first delegate. She served as the first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights, and oversaw the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Later she chaired the John F. Kennedy administration's Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.
A high school with a 60 million dollar concussion factory. Local funding of schools through property taxes is once again shown to be an awful system.Over the weekend, voters in McKinney, Texas voted to publicly finance the construction of a new $62.8 million 12,000-seat high school football stadium. The McKinney Independent School District proposition included issuing a $220 million bond to improve facilities at local public schools, among them what will be the most expensive high school football stadium in the country. “We’re visionaries,” the district superintendent said after the measure passed.
How? They voted on it. Dumb? Yes, but they're the ones paying for it so what do you care?SuperJail Warden wrote:
A high school with a 60 million dollar concussion factory. Local funding of schools through property taxes is once again shown to be an awful system.Over the weekend, voters in McKinney, Texas voted to publicly finance the construction of a new $62.8 million 12,000-seat high school football stadium. The McKinney Independent School District proposition included issuing a $220 million bond to improve facilities at local public schools, among them what will be the most expensive high school football stadium in the country. “We’re visionaries,” the district superintendent said after the measure passed.
I remember posting that and thought this was the same stadium. Texas is really a Christian Saudi Arabia the way they waste money.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
you are very consistent MacBeth
it looks like that one turned out ok in retrospect (and after retrofits)
A field of corn is more productive than a stadium.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
but is it a waste? The first stadium seems to be doing well, and is on the way to turning a profit.
I'm not generally a fan of publicly financed stadiums, but the financing of PRIVATE stadiums should be far higher on your whine list. It's professional sports teams that should draw your ire, not public high school stadiums. Public financing of private stadiums has been studied extensively and the conclusion is almost always that it is a net negative for the public, but absolutely wonderful for the private beneficiaries.
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Because it's a mostly rural state. You don't need a diploma to drive a tractor or a truck. They aren't seeking the same life you are.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Texas literally has the lowest high school completion rate in the entire country. 79.9%
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there is no way you can argue that the $120,000,000 for those stadiums was the best way to use that money. I know the local muppets wanted it which is half of the problem.
It's a publicly funded amusement park that the local taxpayers are self-funding voluntarily. What exactly is there to criticize? If you don't like it, don't move there.Dilbert_X wrote:
A field of corn is more productive than a stadium.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
but is it a waste? The first stadium seems to be doing well, and is on the way to turning a profit.
I'm not generally a fan of publicly financed stadiums, but the financing of PRIVATE stadiums should be far higher on your whine list. It's professional sports teams that should draw your ire, not public high school stadiums. Public financing of private stadiums has been studied extensively and the conclusion is almost always that it is a net negative for the public, but absolutely wonderful for the private beneficiaries.
A simple mown field and a whistle is all you need to learn to be a team player, not a $60m stadium.
yeah well life would suck a whole lot if the only things we spent money on were measured based on Dilbert's scale of "productivity". Amusement parks aren't "productive". Shooting a gun at little targets isn't "productive". Pounding away on the keyboard in your mom's basement isn't "productive".Dilbert_X wrote:
A field of corn is more productive than a stadium.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
but is it a waste? The first stadium seems to be doing well, and is on the way to turning a profit.
I'm not generally a fan of publicly financed stadiums, but the financing of PRIVATE stadiums should be far higher on your whine list. It's professional sports teams that should draw your ire, not public high school stadiums. Public financing of private stadiums has been studied extensively and the conclusion is almost always that it is a net negative for the public, but absolutely wonderful for the private beneficiaries.
A simple mown field and a whistle is all you need to learn to be a team player, not a $60m stadium.
in addition to $42M in HVAC (shout out to Jay!) upgrades to various facilities, and $52.3M to elementary school upgrades.Technology was at the top of the list with a suggested $35 million to be devoted to classroom and instructional technology, infrastructure, servers and similar items, and further funding of the district’s “1 to the World” program, which aims to supply laptops to every high school student at MISD.
Also under consideration is a $39.6 million for a fine arts extension, which would include a new, expanded auditorium at McKinney High School, expansions to both Evans Middle School and Cockrill Middle School band halls, as well as the McKinney Boyd High School band hall and general district band infrastructure refreshment.
