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- doublefelix, on 01/25/2009, -0/+71If you haven't already established your figure skating career by the time you're in High School then you've started way too late.
- jvmiami, on 01/26/2009, -4/+60what a waste of money
- Sammyshoe, on 01/26/2009, -1/+45They could have bought a new Mac with that kind of money
- parestrep, on 01/26/2009, -1/+36That budget committee is sure to be on thin ice.
- BoneStamp, on 01/26/2009, -0/+32That's the last time Mrs Bartum's 5th grade class puts together the school budget.
1. Hanna Montana Tickets: $850,000
2. Skateboard Park: $1,500,000
3. Iron Lotus Olympic Team: $135,536 - davidg11, on 01/26/2009, -0/+25What would Brian Boitano do?
- CVL4317, on 01/26/2009, -0/+23 ''We are the only public high school in the United States that used the education version of bailout money to skate around on the ice looking pretty and so on while thousands other kids do not need an English class or two,''
- inactive, on 01/26/2009, -0/+17You can teach art and music at much less than $8000/student.
That's very expensive for a single course in high school. - TwwIX, on 01/26/2009, -3/+17Figure Skating is neither art nor music.
- inactive, on 01/26/2009, -0/+11McCain lost.
Get over it. - Dylson, on 01/26/2009, -0/+8http://www.sadtrombone.com/
- badenglishihave, on 01/26/2009, -1/+10Don't you think $135k sounds a little low for an Apple product?
- mrminime111, on 01/26/2009, -14/+22I actually have several friends who go to this school, kinda surprising to find something this small and insignificant here on Digg that is sitting in my own back yard. But anywho, onto the point. Its a private school that caters to all arts. Theatre, Music, Instrumental, Dance, even Figure skating.
The fact of the matter is it costs anywhere from 7k to 25k per student in Public school in various parts of the nation. So giving the public school system the benefit of the doubt, lets say these 17 kids would cost in a public school $425,000. So really does $135,536 really look all that bad?
Nope.
And honestly, there is always going to be someone who complains about something. So what if this school drops $135k on 17 kids. Most of our public and private schools are doing the same. And any school that takes in children for learning is going to get government funding.
What does the war cost a day? $720 Million or so? I think we have more important things to spend our time yelling over. Leave the future of our kids alone, because if some of them have the ability and the chance to shine, let them. Please?
(source on cost per kids: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ... , http://www.publicpurpose.com/gf-edada.htm , http://www.reformk12.com/archives/000174.nclk ) - Volatile36, on 01/26/2009, -1/+9Well, I'm all for teaching kids about being active, arts, and music, but $135,000? Couldn't that be better spent helping more than just 17 kids do something?
- inactive, on 01/26/2009, -8/+16And that's why art and music are no longer taught in every school, and why the national endowment for the arts no longer exists. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it isn't very, very valuable.
- Echuu, on 01/26/2009, -2/+10http://bacolicio.us/http://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio ...
That totally makes it worth it. - brickbat, on 01/26/2009, -1/+9I don't see what all the fuss is about. It's not a regular school. It's a performing Arts Charter School and the ice skating is low on students. Certain types of skills cost a lot of money to teach.
- b8765g, on 01/26/2009, -1/+7I'm going to hazard a guess and say the school spends more money on these kids than whats in the figure skateing budget.
- inactive, on 01/26/2009, -0/+4The difference is that this is $135,536 (or $8471 per student) for a single course.
Do you seriously believe that spending $135,536 for 16 students for a single course is reasonable? - effoffpunk, on 01/26/2009, -3/+7that sounds like a bargain. do any of you know how hard it is to figure skate? I thought not.
- mrminime111, on 01/26/2009, -0/+4Im sure he'd kick an ass or two. Thats what Brian Boitano do.
- gleongelpi, on 01/26/2009, -0/+4This expenditures are outrageous. I used to work at a boarding school as bookkeeper. I know it costs between 20k and 25k a year per child to provide for tuition, room and board, and incidentals. This cost is a criminal waste of tax-payer money.
- darknecross, on 01/26/2009, -1/+5A lot of good those figure skating classes are going to be when the kids can't average out their scores during a competition.
- goofygarber, on 01/26/2009, -0/+4Nah...
- Duffle, on 01/26/2009, -2/+6Sounds as bad as the private school I left asking for $20 million to create a theater for a school of less than 800.
- AJay85, on 01/26/2009, -2/+6You say it's a private school, but the article says it's a public school. Even the superintendent says it's a public school in the article.
If it's a private school, fine. If it's a public school, there's a problem. - inactive, on 01/26/2009, -4/+8How is it valuable? It's not useful in any way.
- TheMadCow, on 01/26/2009, -0/+4Yeah. We could be spending that on beer, Nascar and Monster Truck Shows.
What the hell good is ice skating anyway. You can't eat it.
Dam, wy du wi ned teechers aniway? I terned out jus fine.
/. - strangewill, on 01/26/2009, -1/+4"INVERSELY RELATED to student SAT "
So if we spent $0 on schools students will ace SAT?
Anyway, stop being stupid, take action and remove incompetency in school administration, don't just sit around and bitch, acting like money is the problem when it's parents who don't take action that matters (and only really take action where it doesn't matter).
I worked at a school, I know where it's issues lie mostly. - kayakto, on 01/26/2009, -0/+3new mac
- Midtowner, on 01/26/2009, -0/+3This is a charter school. It's part of the public school system, but it has its own school board and administration. It answers to a charter which is a contract (think of something like the Constitution) which spells out what the function of the school is, what its mission is, how much money per student it gets (if not otherwise specified by state law) and how many kids they can take on. Once that charter school gets its charter, its life is sort of in its own hands. It's almost a free market system. If you think your kids will do better at the charter school where there is little to no district supervision/red tape? Fine. If you prefer the mainstream public school? You're free to decide.
Is spending this kind of cash for an ice skating program wise? Maybe/maybe not. If the parents don't support this, they probably have quite a few quality alternatives. It's not like anyone is holding a gun on someone else and telling them to send their kids here. - Cole2026, on 01/26/2009, -1/+4I would argue we don't have to spend more on education, just fix the system that has been broken for nearly a century. I wouldn't go as far as this comment though.
- maxstr, on 01/26/2009, -0/+3And how much is spent on the football program?
- taintedzodiac, on 01/26/2009, -0/+3The Charter school in question is only for the arts. They do not have many sports programs since the kids can join the local high school teams as residents of the areas those schools service.
On the bright side, one of the local high schools just won a state championship and the team is whining to high hell about the district not buying them gold rings to commemorate it. - BoneStamp, on 01/26/2009, -0/+3When I was in high school, the hottest girl (by far) was a figure skater. There was nothing gay about me wanting to get in to that, sport.
- AmyVernon, on 01/26/2009, -6/+8That sounds reasonable.
- clickmyface, on 01/26/2009, -3/+5my kid better look f****ng majestic for that kind of money.
- gleongelpi, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2The cost per unit. This is just one example of thousands of why this country is going to hell. Yes, it makes me mad. It is the same kinda thing all over the place.
- thizzlebot, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2I wonder why we are in a recession?
- DavidTurnbull, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2I'm worried that a sport has the ability to affect your affinity towards a certain sex so swiftly.
- MeccaYdna, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2Reminds me of my old high school, which had a $150,000 donation from the community and planned to buy a laptop to loan out for every student. But then they decided to spend the cash on a giant square scoreboard for the gym that cost a $250,000 instead. Thanks!
- inactive, on 01/28/2009, -0/+2dugg for Blades of Glory reference
- gnotDigger, on 01/26/2009, -2/+4Are you guys seriously crying about something under a million dollars? What.. The.. *****... What exactly do you think 100k gets you these days?
- mpobri, on 01/27/2009, -0/+2Almost $8000 each. That's more than my 2 kids will ever have spent on them to learn everything (up to college).
- CVL4317, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2you mean, "fabulous"?
- egaonogenkiII, on 01/26/2009, -2/+4LeHIGH? To spend a lot of money on this is just LeLow..
- positron, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2"Charter schools are elementary or secondary schools in the United States that receive public money..."
"While charter schools provide an alternative to other public schools, they are part of the public education system and are not allowed to charge tuition."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school - VitriolAndAngst, on 01/26/2009, -3/+5I don't get outraged about money spent until it reaches $100 Million.
Suck it Conservative spin-meisters. You could waste a billion on someone's education and still not piss me off. Wasting money in this country, on actual people -- still means jobs and opportunity.
Wasting money blowing up bridges -- is about as much waste as you can get. So, just STFU about waste until it's like "bushCo" big, OK? - ThePotatoe, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2I'm as big of an arts education supporter as you can get, and I think this is an astonishing amount of money to spend for a single course.
This is why rec centers have private tutors; if a kid who is completely dead-serious about figure skating wants lessons and CAN'T make the time outside of school to take such classes, then they're spreading themselves across way too many activities. - Uthman, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2I wish my high school offered figure skating. I wouldn't have tested out early if it did.
Eerr, but ya, horrible waste of money. I blame the students for not realizing how B.A. figure skating is and not taking advantage of it; and the school administration for keeping a program that is a financial blackhole. -
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