Posted on 04/30/2016 5:17:11 AM PDT by C19fan
A suburban Dallas school district grabbed national attention in 2012 when it opened an eye-popping $60 million high school football stadium.
Not to be outdone, school officials near Houston next year plan to unveil a $62 million stadium-development plan. And a district north of Dallas is considering spending more than $50 million on its own football arena.
(Excerpt) Read more at tucson.com ...
Meanwhile property taxes go thru the roof in Texas.
At least the people voted for the bonds. If they want to blow eight figures on HS football so be it.
These projects aren’t popular in the NYC metro area because the people paying the bills are increasingly mutually exclusive of the people with children using the facilities (in anything related to schools). My town just built a “bark park” for the taxpayers’ pets, while a short distance away the foreigners’ children play on nice soccer and baseball fields.
Mob rule, got it. Mean while the working poor and elderly are forced out of their homes by higher and higher property taxes. Perhaps the schools should educate the kids in reading writing and arithmetic instead of teaching football?
“Mean while the working poor and elderly are forced out of their homes by higher and higher property taxes.”
Exactly!
This is happening in quite a few areas it’s truly tragic.
Unintended consequences, or all part of the plan?
Yeah that’s why people are paying $8 - 10K a year on property taxes for the new generation of indoctrinees that will only acknowledge our existence later when we are euthanized upon non - tax producing status as to our identity - “yes that is the biological unit that my DNA was extrapolated from before I was sent to my LGBT parents”.
FWIW .... the Allen High stadium is more than just a stadium. It has many other buildings containing offices and other facilities.
John From nephilim worship services aren’t cheap.
No taxes went up due to any bond election here in Allen and property tax contributed $0 to the stadium.
This actually shows the genius of the founders. They understood both the problems of a tyrant and mob rule. They sent the mob rule back to the states. The people in the individual school districts get to vote on the stadium bonds, and school board members.
This is a good thing
True this is one stadium but it will serve 8 high schools in the district.
from the article:
By the time the Katy complex opens, the district will have eight high schools and each will
play their football games at the 12,000-seat stadium. Soccer will be played there too.
AP hot on the important issues again, I see.
People wonder why I am so cynical about schools crying poor and building overpriced playgrounds while they turn out idiots.
Goes triple for any college or university.
“John From nephilim worship services aren’t cheap.”
I’m not saying you are wrong, but I am saying I must not be getting it, whatever it is.
Freegards
Free money? Cool, as long as not one tax payer dime is use to pay off the bonds then that is cool.
Allen High School is ranked 1,131 out of 1,694 high schools in Texas.
http://www.schooldigger.com/go/TX/schoolrank.aspx?level=3&findschool=0789000117
The U.S. ranks 14th in education.
6 January 2015 Mark 1 comment.
According to Pearson, the United States has a “cognitive skills and educational attainment” score of 0.39, which makes the United States rank fourteenth out of forty countries ranked in that category.
https://rankingamerica.wordpress.com/category/education/page/2/
Maybe the 50 million would be better spend educating the kids? Allen does not appearing to be doing a good job of that.
We do have the highest sales tax rate in the area, however.
here is one test question ALL stadiums fail... How many Days/year will it be at 50 % or better attendance ?
the district will have eight high schools and each will play their football games at the 12,000-seat stadium.
So divide the cost by eight to get the cost per school. Then STFU. Don't mess with Texas.
School Board Rationalizations:
“Well, we do want our teams to win!”
“how do you motivate our kids to win when the team they’re playing has a $50 Million stadium? Only one way, build a $60 Million stadium”
Kind of reminds me about the story where they compared divorce rates in ‘extravagant’ marriages to cheapies. I don’t even have to tell you which ones were more successful.
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