And throughout the country, voters approve multi-million $ school bonds continuously, under the ruse of “for the children”. Until the electorate becomes more educated, this will continue. I am not optimistic.
In my "conservative" town, I have never seen a school budget fail. The budget meetings may have some people asking pointed questions, but once the budget is out, it ALWAYS gets approved by significant margins.
One recently was a $6 million upgrade to the football field, a new beautiful scoreboard, etc.. - for a sport which directly serves maybe 30 boys (and now has a tough time recruiting enough players to join) and 15 girls as cheerleaders.
As you say "its for the kids" and parents seem to automatically vote YES to anything that's proposed.