Did you hear about the new Los Angeles high school that recently opened? Named for Robert F. Kennedy, the price tag for this gargantuan K-12 school was $578 million dollars. It is supposed to house up to 4200 students. In that context, it isn't that gargantuan at all.
When I graduated from my four year (9-12) high school in California, there were 2200 students attending. And our school cost no where near $578M.
What does a school have that could cost THAT much money to build? Is it also some kind of high security nerve center? Or a tactical command center for currently deployed communication satellites? Or is it a subsidized Church of Scientology celebrity center?
If it is just a school, what do they have going on there? And isn't California's budget deep into the red? How can they afford that?
For all the reports that regularly put Utah schools in the very bottom of the per pupil spending list, our public schools do a dang good job cranking out high flying students at the end of each year. And none that I have ever heard of cost that much to build.
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