Broke Los Angeles Spent $578 Million On This Extravagant Public School (Talking benches)

businessinsider.com ^ | 9/13/2010 | businessinsider.com

[dragnet2]

The largest city of the brokest state in America just opened the doors on the $578-million RFK School. Built on the site of the historic Ambassador Hotel, the K-12 facility is now the most expensive public school in the country.

They gave the school a state-of-the-art swimming pool, underground parking, historically recreated sections of the hotel, "talking benches" that describe the site's significance, a teacher's lounge modeled after the famous Coconut Grove Night Club

[SharpRightTurn]

$578 million of taxpayer money and it’ll still be Riot in Cell Block C once the LA students arrive.

Los Angeles: stuck on stupid.

[Nip]

IMHO

This is NOT a school. It is a 578-million memorial to Bobby Kennedy. Its very name tells you - “RFK School”. Add to this the talking benches to tell the fifth generation of under educated Californian high school students the importance of their school's name and it becomes very obvious to me what the real purpose of this school is and it ain't edumcation!

The Californian liberal establsihement lost the original memorial to Bobby when the Ambassador Hotel was torn down.
The options left the the Californian liberal establishment were two - actually do their job of educating the LA youth for building this monstrosity of a memorial. Since it was built with “free” money guess which option they chose.

[mountn man]

>The teachers lounge looks like a nightclub?
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>They probably have an elective in how to make porn.
Well, how else is the public school district supposed to pay for it?
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The Teachers Lounge

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Prom

[Regulator]

Nothing is too good for the children of Mexico, you know?

Us gringos owe it to them for having taken such wonderful places away from them back in 1846.

[The Duke]

Hey, maybe we should start a class-action lawsuit if the benches don’t speak every language on the planet?

[SES1066]

Don't you yahoos understand, this is sacred Kennedy ground, it has to be made special. Of course, the fact that the LA School System fails to graduate well over 40% is immaterial, this is RFK's death site, have you no empathy? Think of the self esteem that these students will have through the years that they attend this Kennedy Shrine as it deteriorates from maintenance-starving funding and as these eloquent benches die from ignorant vandals. /sarc

Leaving sarcasm aside, how many students will know who R.F.Kennedy was now, let alone in 10 years!

[Dallas59]

But will there be any fat served in the cafeteria? Michelle is on to that sort of thing.

[dragnet2]

Don't you yahoos understand, this is sacred Kennedy ground, it has to be made special

Got news for ya slick, Cuckoo could have been gang raped and shot at the hotel and the local corrupt government would have still spent tens of millions. I know...You guy in Florida are a little slow

[SES1066]

A small addendum about R.F.K. - He was the first and only Senator / Presidential Candidate to be honored with the equivalent of a State Funeral with a cast of 10s of thousands ordered to participate. It also had a funeral train that took 8+ hours to travel from NYC to Washington, D.C. [nominally a 2-3 travel even then]. This travel route included police units standing on roofs to prevent anyone from shooting at the casket, a rather remarkable thought.

Looking back on 1968, the multitude of protests and riots, and the murders of Reverend King and Senator Kennedy, it was indeed a horrible year that did much to send America on the wrong path!

[SES1066]

I put nothing past the “land of fruit and nuts”! California is the unfortunate offspring of those people who thought that the land of “El Dorado” was real. Being in Florida, while we have some difficulties, we also have no personal state income tax.

[dragnet2]

California is the unfortunate offspring of those people who thought that the land of “El Dorado” was real

No offense, but compared to Florida, it is....BTW, why do people still wear their hair in mullets in Florida? What's up with that?

[dragnet2]

[LibFreeOrDie]

a teacher's lounge modeled after the famous Coconut Grove Night Club

[SES1066]

Well, I haven't seen one of them any time recently but we also have "Miami's South Beach" and the hardbodies that go there ... (I resemble them)
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[Frank_2001]

Why did they knock down that Ambassador Hotel in the first place?