Its time for.. HOW UNDER-FUNDED IS YOUR SCHOOL?

[jasmine1991]

our school pretty much has it bad. its so old that we have cieling(sp?) tiles that are dryrotted and you can see some really cool grafitti from like the 80's or something and a sign that says "smoking barrier, no smoking past this point" with so many smoking laws today its hard to believe that there was an actual designated smoking area in my school

 

[PrincessEeyore]

My town has 9 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, and 2 public and 1 private high schools. You'd think with the millions of kids we have, we'd have some decent funding. My high school is like 40+ years old and looks like it should be 100+. This summer they redid the auditorium, built a senior parking lot, and built on site tennis courts. The auditorium was in perfect shape, redoing it was a HUGE waste of money. The tennis courts and senior parking lot were needed though, so that was a good decision at least. 2 years ago they added a two story, 20 classroom addition to our school because its wayyyy to over-crowded! (even with all the schools we have) But the school doesn't know how to spend the money where its needed. Our science labs are as old as the school, the lockers are all broken, bent in, beat up, grafittied, glued shut, jammed, or don't even have a place to put your lock. Some even have wooden panels for doors. The bathrooms are disgusting, covered in grafitti, ceiling panels are falling, the toilets leak, and the sinks barely work. In most of the upstairs classrooms, the ceilings leak, and the roof tiles are falling. We have heat and air condition, it just always seems to be broken. A lot, if not all, of the windows can't open because they're jammed and a bunch of them have broken panels with duct tape holding them together. There's like two classrooms that have windows that are jammed open! I feel really bad for whoevers in those rooms now in the winter. Our schools wasted so much money buying wall mounted projectors and smartboards that feed off of these brand new computers via wifi. Half the teachers don't even know what wifi is, let alone how to use it! So they we're mostly a huge waste of money until the old teachers retire and the new ones figure out how to work them! Like 4 years ago, they installed cameras EVERYWHERE in my school, in the classrooms, hallwalls, entrences, gyms, outside, everywhere. BUT, they've never been turned on because no one has come in to connect them!!!!!! I think the best waste of money though, has to be the 20, 24in Mac computers they bought. The classes aren't allowed to use them for a computer lab, the only class that can use them is the computer software class, which there is only one class! No one takes the class so these stupid Macs are only used for one period! The biggest waste of money ever! I LOVE MY SCHOOL!!!

 

[Saintzgurl]

thats so stupid!

we have at least one computer in every class and about three computer rooms. I thought we were bad off. I feel better now.

 

[PrincessEeyore]

we have at least one computer in every class and about three computer rooms. I thought we were bad off.

We have 3 computers in all the new addition rooms, and 5 in the science labs, and like 6 computer labs or something so I don't really get why they needed to waste the money for the new ones.

 

[Saintzgurl]

We have 3 computers in all the new addition rooms, and 5 in the science labs, and like 6 computer labs or something so I don't really get why they needed to waste the money for the new ones.

I dont know, people are wierd like that.

 

[princesskelz]

There was a rat in the lunchroom at our old school

 

[AmandaSparks730]

Crappy roof-moldy and black and GROSS
Mice in some of the home-ec rooms
Welfare lunch meat
Run-down, bad. Great in academics, one of the top High Schools in the state academic-wise, but just HORRIBLE on the inside.

Did I mention that at one of the elementary schools, a panel from the ceiling fell off and almost HIT someone?!

 

[PurpleDucky]

Our school is okay
We wasted money on automatic paper towel dispensers and automatic foamy soap things.
And the whole high school had to buy a macbook for 2k, when in the business world, they use PCs
The macs have caused so many suspensions and couple expulsions. This year is by far the worst, behavior wise.
Last year, we built a young child care facility. The bottom floor is newborn - PREK4
On the top floor is the conference room and 5 highschool classrooms
In the old building, we don't have carpet, we have this ugly tile thing that was under the carpet. The carpet was taken out because it got too dirty and gum was all over it. I never saw the carpet though.
Our lunches are decent, it's all cooked an hour before lunch. And it doesn't have bugs or any crap like that in it. The food is really pricy though. When I came to that school in 7th grade the hot lunch was $2.50 and now it's $4.00

 

[tinkerbelle22]

Funny, this conversation just came up in Fiddler on the Roof rehearsal at my school a few hours ago. We literally have 50 girls and about 20 boys in the whole cast, and us 50 girls are in a dressing room the size of a small closet. It stinks, it's cramped, and it's hot. And no one has ever done anything about it! Also, we don't have AC, just heating, and sometimes the furnace or whatever it's called leaks. It's weird. My school (high school) was built around 1920-something...so it's quite an oldie. My English class looks like it's from the 20's. Just the tiles and the ceilings and all that. The elementary school was really old too, but they tore it down the year after I graduated from it and built an amazing, high-tech, incredible one. My brother's in that school, lucky him. The middle school is eh. It's tiny, so there's not much to be bad about it. But the budget in my school district is ridiculous. We never have enough money for stuff, not just the school play, but other stuff.

 

[OneTreeHill]

In my middle school, some girl had a mouse in her locker. It was gross.

 

[emmalou]

Yeah, my school is pretty underfunded, but for sure not the worst. In the bathroom, there were huge holes in the ceiling, so right now we have pieces of cardboard boxes taped up on the ceiling with duct tape. So attractive.

When it rained last week, the roof of the gym/auditorium leaked all over the stage. There was a 15 ft. puddle in the dead center of the stage.

Our non-academic departments (like drama and art and wood shop) have a budget of like $300 for the entire year. That's like $2 a kid.

It's a running joke in our school about how our school is so poor that we have no money to buy paper. (We do buy some paper, of course, but it's not enought to last a month)

Our desks break ALL the time, but we don't have any money to buy new ones, so you just hope you don't get put in one of the broken ones.

The other day, we watched a film strip from 1970. The old kind of film strip, like a slide show. Fun stuff.

I don't know if this is normal, but we don't have electric pencil sharpeners. We have those old hand crank ones that are like 40 years old.

For our science classes, we're supposed to do lots of labs, but we only do like 2 or 3 a year.

We no longer have our report cards mailed home because postage costs too much.

Oh and of course we have mice scurrying around the class and ants everywhere. Although, we have been pretty good about getting exterminators lately.

No A/C. And we're very very lucky when the heater works, but for some buildings it just doesn't work at all.

Our grass is brown because we have no money to water it.

As for textbooks, we're not as bad as our neighboring school. They don't even have enough textbooks for a class. There are only 5 or so for each class. That's terrible.

We have caution tape all over school around broken things and refurbishment projects that didn't have enough funding to finish.

The faucets in our PE lockers are all rusty and give only the tiniest stream of water. Most of the bathroom stall doors are broken off or don't lock.

Oh! Just yesterday, our principal goes on the intercom during 5th period and says, "Uh... Good afternoon. Sorry for this intrusion, but we would just like to inform all students and teachers that all bathrooms are closed. Our water system backed up in all of the bathrooms school wide. We are working on fixing it all. But for the rest of the day, anyone who needs to use the restroom can use the Porta-Potties out on the baseball fields. Thank you. That is all." Can you just visualize the situation in the bathrooms?!?! EW.


Okay. Crazy animal story. I was in wood shop and there is a door that is open to the street. (The only place in the school that isn't completely locked up.) So we're just sitting in class. And this out of no where this big black labroador just walks into class. I guess he had gotten out and had just wandered into class. He was really friendly. So we got him some water and adopted him for the day. He was so nice and let him pet him and everything. We found the owner right afterschool and returned him.

Oh and another day, a old student was visiting my teacher and in the middle of a conversation, he whips a ferret out of his big jacket. It was his pet of course. He let us pet it and stuff, but it was just so random.

In cooking class, we were going to use bread crumbs for something one day. So we measured out all the ingredients and the bread crumbs. And when one group took a scoop full of bread crumbs, there were all these maggots in the bread crumbs. SO GROSS. We didn't cook that day.

WOW. I went on for quite a while. I never knew there were so many things wrong with my school.

 

[MrsSparrow..]

Lol at the tiles falling down. In my history classroom, like 10 panels are missing from the ceiling and when you look up, you see a set of stairs.

I remember first realising how under-funded our school was when our boiler started leaking. It kept comming from the ceiling and for about 2 months, noone fixed it and every room had a bucket.

-Ashleigh

 

[Babyjustrun]

My school is actually a pretty old school, but it's only been a high school since like.. 2000?
It's been renovated in several places and it's probably one of the nicer HS's in my district ( I can't stay school, my K-8 school is the nicest). It's not underfunded in any way really.
No insane stories =(

 

[pigletgirl]

The bathrooms at my highschool were SOOO gross. Its like they never cleaned them, nor did it seem like they never took out the containers either.

But where I'm at now, they keep them decent. Although I would NEVER EVER go into the shower without flip-flops.

 

[Babyjustrun]

The bathrooms at my highschool were SOOO gross. Its like they never cleaned them, nor did it seem like they never took out the containers either.

But where I'm at now, they keep them decent. Although I would NEVER EVER go into the shower without flip-flops.

Oh god.
Our bathrooms suck. It's not a lack of janitors (although they have been threatening a strike because some freshman boys decided it would be fun to finger paint with poop fourth period), it's more or less.. crappy toilets.
I mean the first floor ones don't flush strong enough to always get the toilet paper down. And I don't know if it's the flushes, or the people who use them, but most of them usually don't look like they were flushed. They either have pee, tons of menstrual fluid (THAT is probably the most disgusting thing I've seen in there) or poop.
And then, you get out to wash your hands, and there's no soap. It takes weeks for soap to be replaced.
There's one hand dryer upstairs, and one downstairs. The one downstairs doesn't even work.

 

[CheezDoodle]

The brand new building was recently flooded (Dunno how that happened, though) and the whole thing smells like moldy feet.

The bathrooms never work and always smell like poop. And there is never any toilet paper, soap, or paper towels either.

We eat outside at crappy plastic picnic tables in an old, in ground pool that has been filled in with mulch.

Also. There's a dog that lives at the school, and sleeps in the nurse's office on the uncomfortable cot thing. So, if you're sick and need to lay down, too bad. Once I was sick with a 103.5 fever and that stupid dog wouldn't move for me to lay down. And at lunch it gets let out and pummels people and steals their lunches. It's a big golden retriever.

Quite a few rooms have no AC. And this is Florida we're talking about.

In the middle of the field there's a big rusted out ramp that leads to no where. Kids just congregate on it. And it one corner of the field there's a whole bunch of plastic pipe that kids build things with.

 

[Casey <3's you]

in my elementary school, we always had roaches in our classrooms and almost all our teachers were girls so from like 1st grade on one of the guys had to kill them.

 

[♥DizzyDizney♥]

Well, my school was built last summer, so it's about a year old
and a family of mice started living in our school. Sometimes we see mice in our class
My teacher was scared to death

 

[laura_<3]

My college is very, very old. My uncle, who is in his 50's went there as a teenager. The money the college recieves goes towards the Marine and Engineering part of the college and not the subject part of the college (such as Maths, English, Sciences etc.) that I am in. It's so bad to the point that the electricity in our part of the college frequently cuts out. It's worse in the winter when it gets darker earlier, we can't see much then.

 

[Damhsa04]

Crappy roof-moldy and black and GROSS
Mice in some of the home-ec rooms
Welfare lunch meat
Run-down, bad. Great in academics, one of the top High Schools in the state academic-wise, but just HORRIBLE on the inside.

Did I mention that at one of the elementary schools, a panel from the ceiling fell off and almost HIT someone?!

One of my teachers had to go to your school for a meeting one day and she's allergic to mold and she was so sick afterwards. She couldn't breath. She told my class she's never going back there for another meeting again.