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LA Unveils $578M School, Costliest in the Nation
ABC News ^ | August 23, 2010 | Christina Hoag

Posted on 08/23/2010 12:54:44 AM PDT by ruination

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How in the world were kids ever able to learn to read, write, and cipher in simple one-room schoolhouses? I mean, without computers on every desk, giant TVs in every room, Olympic-size swimming pools, and Astroturf playing fields, how is it even possible to learn the simplest of subjects?


21 posted on 08/23/2010 2:20:09 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (For the first time in half a century, there is no former KKK member in the US Senate.)
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To: ruination
More pictures of the performing arts high school here.

What will they do to top this extravagance?

22 posted on 08/23/2010 2:31:40 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (For the first time in half a century, there is no former KKK member in the US Senate.)
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Ugly building.

Art doesn’t HAVE to be ugly to be impressive.


23 posted on 08/23/2010 2:38:13 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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To: Fresh Wind

File bankruptcy as a state....


24 posted on 08/23/2010 2:38:23 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Fresh Wind

That school is actually a different one - a few miles from this new one. It opened last year and cost a mere $232 million, but that’s cause it’s only for high schoolers, not K-12. Its name is “Central Los Angeles Area High School #9.”


25 posted on 08/23/2010 2:49:24 AM PDT by ruination
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To: ransomnote

will they have a memorial of where he was shot?


26 posted on 08/23/2010 3:08:14 AM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: DontTreadOnMe2009

they will build it then not have the money to run it.


27 posted on 08/23/2010 3:09:28 AM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: Fresh Wind

Thanks for the pics. The cost is obscene and the building really ugle. And they had to get someone from Austria to design it! They make me sick.


28 posted on 08/23/2010 3:09:33 AM PDT by bronxville
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” And they had to get someone from Austria to design it! “

Really??

Anybody remember where the Governator is from??

Hmmmmmmmm.....

;)


29 posted on 08/23/2010 3:25:27 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: ruination
The pricey schools have come during a sensitive period for the nation's second-largest school system: Nearly 3,000 teachers have been laid off over the past two years, the academic year and programs have been slashed. The district also faces a $640 million shortfall and some schools persistently rank among the nation's …

What are they thinking - it’s only money?

30 posted on 08/23/2010 3:52:11 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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That school is actually a different one - a few miles from this new one. It opened last year and cost a mere $232 million, but that’s cause it’s only for high schoolers, not K-12. Its name is “Central Los Angeles Area High School #9.”

Yes, I realize it's a different school. It's the one in the picture that Drudge has on his site. In that sense, Drudge's posting is misleading.

But it's illustrative of the thinking of the LA school district.

31 posted on 08/23/2010 3:52:49 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (For the first time in half a century, there is no former KKK member in the US Senate.)
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To: Halgr

“Is “Social Justice” the new name for COMMUNISM???”

That, and “reparations”.


32 posted on 08/23/2010 4:14:37 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Fresh Wind
There's also the "Belmont Learning Complex," a nearby high school which opened in 2008. It cost over $400 million.

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/10/local/me-belmont10

I don't know if you're familiar with the area, but all three of these schools are in hardcore illegal alien territory. Also just a few miles away is the high school where that reconquista teacher Ron Gochez teaches. The whole area has been handed over.
33 posted on 08/23/2010 4:14:59 AM PDT by ruination
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Reparations. That’s it. After prop 187 was killed in the late 90’s a big group of lefty Hispanics gained a lot of political power and formed this big ethnic network, allied with the usual progressive dirtbags in the region. These schools are fruits of their labor.

And they’re not being paid for by the people in the areas they serve, they’re being paid for mostly by the resented whites who dared to try to protect their own state and cities.


34 posted on 08/23/2010 4:30:18 AM PDT by ruination
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I don’t know if you’re familiar with the area, but all three of these schools are in hardcore illegal alien territory. Also just a few miles away is the high school where that reconquista teacher Ron Gochez teaches. The whole area has been handed over.


Well, not exactly or entirely handed over.

We still need to pay for it.

Let me see, $850 million for the Martin Luther King Hospital, $230 million for one school, $400 million for another school, $500 million for the next school in such a great location...

Gee, pretty soon it all adds up.

Pretty soon you’re talking real money.


35 posted on 08/23/2010 4:31:24 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: Halgr

“Is “Social Justice” the new name for COMMUNISM???”

No, it means “My brother got me the job.”


36 posted on 08/23/2010 4:43:29 AM PDT by 4buttons
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To: DontTreadOnMe2009

I don’t know why and I know i can’t find it on Google anymore even if I wanted to use Google.
So tell me..... why???


37 posted on 08/23/2010 4:54:24 AM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: ruination
"Districts want a showpiece for the community,

Couldn't that goal be better accomplished by graduating students who are proficient in the three "Rs"? The only thing the building is a showcase for, is the architect and builder.

38 posted on 08/23/2010 6:01:16 AM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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lol

Biggest waste of money ever.

Here is what they SHOULD of done.

They should of spent 78 Million building the school, then put the other 500 Million in a CD drawing 5% interest which would of made them 25 Million a year in interest. With that 25 Million a year they could of hired 200 college level professors with PhD’s to teach the 4,000 students there with a class size of 20 kids per teacher and paid them $100,000 each AND still had 5 million a year for other expenses like utilities. If they had done this... they would still have the 500 Million and probably would of been able to cut school district property taxes and would of had the best teachers in the nation teaching their kids.

A building never taught anyone anything, the teachers are the critical component.

39 posted on 08/23/2010 6:10:22 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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I'm actually glad this montrosity was built, as it gives overt visual evidence of the takeover of America by foreigners/illegals, and brings home the cost of illegal immigration to the common man.

Maybe this will be a learning aid that wakes him up from his apolitical stupor, and finally makes him angry.

40 posted on 08/23/2010 6:14:55 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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