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Went to an agricultural all-boys highschool, in the afternoon we would basically run the farm, milk the cows, plant, feed the chickens, you know all the stuff you learn in an effort to become a farmer (I decided on an IT career later on). So naturally this generated a nice steady stream of income. So for 5 years in a row, we had to watch our headmaster announce that, the budget the Department of Education allocated to the school was being sent back to the government. And all I could think at that moment was that our textbooks were over 20 years old, some held together by tape, glue, and staples and our science classroom hadn't seen a practical experiment ever because there wasn't money to buy chemicals or equipment. Turned out later that the principal got a sizable bonus every year he sent money back, for "managing the school's finances within budget".

It’s almost shocking how much of a drain on school finances that a football team is more than any other school sport. And considering how astronomical the odds are of any of these kids being drafted into the NFL, it makes me shake my head how the school would rather waste money on football than to have outdoor recess, gym classes, or having the proper equipment for teachers.

Ok, ignoring the money wasting, the kindergartners wanting to play outside instead of using iPads puts a smile on my face.

In my last year of high school, my school had painted on braille dots onto all the signs throughout the campus. This would be great for the small handful of blind students there but it was just painted on. No actual bumps on the signs whatsoever.

My college gave their football coach a 2 million dollar raise... and made severe cuts to the art and music departments.

Crazy how schools will get rid of classes altogether and then add useless crap like flatscreens in hallways nobody uses

New principal painted over all the several decade old murals for absolutely no reason.

My elementary school spent thousands of dollars on a gravity swing (basically a safer zip line) but after 4 days they chained it up and claimed kids were too rough on it as some students would give their friends a push to go faster. It sat like that for a decade before the new principal finally allowed kids to play on it again.

Well my school spent $2,000 on buddy benches. They were placed near the field and they weren’t ever used, probably because you had to become buddies with whoever else was sat on it. It became the quickest way to get bullied.

My high school had a fundraiser for money for YEARS to expand the parking lot by a large amount of space, which everyone in the community approved of (the school had so many students that would drive themselves to class every day, and the parking lot was ALWAYS completely full). The school cleared the land, fenced it all off... and decided to spend the money on a building for the wrestling team. The team that already used the MASSIVE gym almost every day of the school year. The team that trashed the building within 6 months, and had to have the inside rebuilt. I graduated and that building was apparently trashed so many times that the school gave up on fixing it, and now the school has a pretty large building that can't even be used, and sits locked on the property. The parking lot still sits unexpanded almost a decade after the construction for said parking lot originally started.

You would be surprised at what people can buy on a whim if there are not spending their own money. Plus, I hear some annual budgets in school districts are allocated to each school based on a "use it or lose it" system. If a school has leftover funds after spending on what they need for that year, their budget will reduced by what they did not spend for the next year. So some schools try to spend it all every year, since no one wants to receive less funding every year. Perhaps some of these Reddit cases are a result of this system in effect.

I’m a teacher and have been to many schools with buddy benches. They were all outside for recess and was a bench to either relax on or to sit and wait for a friend. All kids were encouraged to be a good friend and help others make a new friend that way. I hardly ever saw anyone sit on the bench unless it was to relax. Anyone who did to get a friend wasn’t usually there very long and kids would go up to even the kids just chilling. I think having the bench by the office instead of out on the playground was what made that bench useless.

As someone who was part of the ROTC class, our ROTC leaders had ro pay for the field trips, our uniforms, etc because our school was more concerned about the sports team. While im talking about my high school, they didn't care about the choir department which I was also apart of. Heck, they forced the color guard to disband because of again, my high school only cared about the sports team. Edit: as someone pointed out, I meant JROTC. Autocorrect did me dirty. "JROTC" is high school level and "ROTC" is college level. Thank you for correcting me!!

About the "prayer garden" one ... Where I went to school, each class had a "faculty advisor." This wasn't a position that followed the class through the grades, it was a different one each year, and the class didn't get to choose, it was just assigned by the school. My junior year the faculty advisor was the art teacher, who almost no one in my class liked (by the end of the year our position had changed dramatically ... we no longer just didn't like her, we actively hated her). The tradition was that the junior class was responsible for putting on the prom, and the juniors and seniors were allowed to go to it. When prom time came we had to pick a theme, and she gave us three choices. I don't remember what any of them were, but I do recall that the vote was nearly unanimous for one of the choices. But she decided we couldn't do that one, so we had to vote again. We were all pretty ticked off ("Why did you have it as an option if you weren't going to let us do it?"), but okay, whatever, we voted again, and again overwhelmingly voted for the one option that didn't completely suck. Well... guess what, we couldn't do that one either. So we were going to have to vote again and choose the best option from a pool of one. About half the class literally just walked out of the room at that point, because we didn't want to legitimize her choice through a sham vote.

A tossup between building an entire “science building” that hardly had any classes were held in, or giving the teachers laptops to track attendance, directly taking funds out of the budget for required student agenda books. Meanwhile, _four_ drinking fountains were busted and didn’t get fixed for _three years._

For me it's more of what wasn't spent. We needed new laptops, more materials for any woodshop class. Along with basic things like paper.

My school bought a few TVs and hung them around the halls. They showed class schedules as well as current news regarding school events, tests and changed schedules. Was pretty useful and made it so we didn't have to whip out our phones and look it up there, possibly getting distracted with social media whilst doing so

In the concourse there was a huge renovation to level out the area and add A GIGANTIC SIGIL OF THE SCHOOL MASCOT ON THE FLOOR TAKING UP ONE THIRD OF THE SPACE. IF ANYONE WALKED ON IT IT WAS A WRITE UP OR DETENTION. Poor design choice if you ask me.

4:25 - A memorial tree was planted for a girl who was killed right before graduation by her family and friends." Yes, I know you MEAN that the tree was planted by the girl's family and friends, but the way it reads suggest that they killed her.

Easy. That Vending machine they got. The school got it as part of a contract for several years. After the first year several kids got sick because the machine used syrup and tab water to mix the beverages it sold and the tab water had some chemical in it that was used to clean the pipes in the building over summer. They had to ask anybody who drank anything from that vending machine to see a doctor to be tested for poisoning. Because of that not only the machine was not only notorious for making pupils sick, but they also had to admit that it was using syrup to mix the drinks instead of offering the actual product. Plus it also sold "fresh water" which actually was just tab water. Several parents were pissed because of that and of course also the poisonous chemicals in the water and asked the school to remove the machine, but the school couldn't because the contract was set up for 5 years. Nobody used the machine after that and every parent and many pupils warned newcomers to stay away from that thing untill it finally got removed. Eidt: TL, DR a beverage vending machine, that turned out to be somewhat of a fraud and poisoned several pupils with contaminated tab water

My school took out all the free parking to build a training area for the football team right across from the stadium they play games in. Every single person who isn’t a freshman hates the training facility and wants the parking back.

The principal at my first high school cut nearly 90% of the funding to the sports program. In order to “give more resources to other departments”. Said resources in question was renovating the teachers lounge as well as having vending machines installed in said lounge. As you could imagine those of us who played sports were pissed when we found out.

It sounds like these principals had a similar situation as federal government entities. If you don't spend all the money on your budget, the next year you get your budget cut.

4:25 "... girl who was killed right before graduation by her family and friends" Stephen King: 🔥🔥✍✍✍🔥🔥

Use it or Lose it budgets are a big issue. I remember my High school admin panicking because they where coming under budget for a year by a fair amount and scrambled to find things to spend the remaining budget on. Least the school district adjust their budget downwards for the next year. This was the same district that refused to let my High school send it's unused wood shop tools to another high school in the district that had a popular wood shop class and needed replacements that the district wouldn't pay for. Said wood tools hadn't been used, outside rarely by the maintenance staff, for a decade and a half by this point since a year after the school opened.

TVs, so many TVs. We could have just kept our smart boards but noooooooo. Now we are in debt and we can’t even afford paper

At least my school uses the TV's in the hallways. Ours always have something useful on like the local News station, the lunch menu, the stock market, ect. I always thought that was pretty common but apparently it's really not.

my school used to have TVs in the hallways near every entrance that just showed "Welcome to [not telling u the name] school. [insert school logo beneath the text]"

this reminds me of a story in an old website, "absurd notions". a university went crazy with Fences, and built a 6 foot by 6 foot fence surrounding A SINGLE TREE. there was actually a photo on the site, and someone had hung a sign on the fence that said "WHY?"

Paving over a soccer field for the kindergarteners to play on. Firstly, pissed off the rest of the students. Secondly, the little kids didn’t get as muddy but did scrape up their knees & elbows enough to upset parents. Thirdly, there was already a kindergarten area with more appropriate surfaces & a gazebo area to keep the sun at bay. The former soccer field was on the other side of the school yard, so by the time the littles had been walked over to the new play area, recess was over already. Older kids were not allowed to play in the remaining area while the littles were being escorted too & fro, so that move single-handedly killed recess altogether. At least until a new principal caved & agreed to reschedule everyone’s timetables

In 86/87. We had desks that were over 50 years old and outdated textbooks. But we got the gym floor/ basketball court Refloord. We were not allowed to use it for gym class. They also returfed the football field while none of the girls' bathrooms worked.

If it's random electronics that are never used. It was a grant. You have to spend the whole grant or they take all the money and every grant has a limited list of what the money can be spent on so you buy what you actually wanted then find something else on the list to waste the rest on.

My School was remodeled in 2019, It has a black button underneath the clock in almost every classroom, It was intended to be able to call the office in the case of an emergency. But it does nothing but play an annoying sound and disconnect the clock from the Internet.

When I was in high school, my school added another gym to the school, instead of much needed classrooms. They put “portable classrooms” in the staff parking lot to add classrooms.

In elementary (K-5 at my school) the 5th graders got chromebooks and everyone was happy, then next year they gave the Kindergarteners tablets that were never used instead of giving the 4th graders chromebooks, even crappy ones would have been better than nothing. They then gave half the 4th graders chromebooks to share (they were never allowed to be taken home anyway but still) it was 2 carts of 30 for like 200-ish kids it was a bigger school and they wondered why students didn’t do any of the fundraisers after that Middle school (6-8 mostly, I went to a few different ones) everyone got their own Chromebooks that they can take home but forgot to hand out chargers to some kids, took a week of questioning why students came in without Chromebooks charged for them to realize. Also the standard spending all the money on sports instead of stuff for band or ANYTHING else practically High school: short and sweet on this one, spent all the money on “new” Jerseys for football teams when the band kids needed marching uniforms to PARTICIPATE in a thing later on that year (I dropped out of band by that point, I sucked and wasn’t getting better) and the teacher essentially had threatened with terrible classes after if they didn’t score high on that same event like bruh Needed to rant a bit on this, thanks for listening to my ted talk

Not sure if this counts, but I remember my vocational school was under construction during my freshman year and much of my sophomore year. They were redoing the cafeteria. That's fine, I guess, but they also installed these TVs and a really loud microphone system that our dean would use to make announcements. He'd do this at least five times per lunch time. Every day. Usually to make announcements about things like prom tickets or whatever fundraiser they had going on. Like, these can be made during morning announcements. You don't need a microphone system in the cafeteria for that. You could have spent the money on something for the shop classes, but noooo. You had to spend it on annoying your students.

When I was in elementary school 25yrs ago they built an out door step keyboard. Like the one in big but made with kid safe safety materials. Apparently it was poorly installed and shorted out the first time it rained.

Smart Boards circa 2002 instead working to get a/c in the school

When I went to community school in the mid '00s the 'technology center' was housed in an old building from the 70s that was collapsing due to age and lack of maintenance. Ever worse most of the demonstration machinery (CNC lathes, industrial robots, etc) were all 2nd hand junk most of which didn't work. Some of which ended up being damaged due to constant roof leaks. This was very rural western NC and this school was one of the only places you could get an education for things like computer networking and electrical engineering. And there was actually a need for people which this kind of education thanks to some of the light/medium industry manufacturing in that part of NC. This school was connected to the state school system, but for some reason Raleigh just really hated that school and never wanted to fund it. There's actually a reason for this that'll be revealed at the end of this post. Well the school finally got some federal grants that was supposed to go fix the roof of the technology center and well as some equipment repairs. But at the proverbial last minute the school administrated decided to cancer the contract for the roof repairs in favor of ordering 100 large plasma screen monitors that they installed all over campus. These t hings basically did nothing but play a glorified screen savor with graphics made by the graphics design class. The kind of the cherry top of this sh*t-show sunday is that about 5 years after I ended up just dropping out of school for unrelated reasons the roof the the technology center actually collapsed during a snow storm. Because they never bothered doing those needed repairs. And instead of dealing with this disaster the school simply closed all the degree programs for the people that were based out of that center. It was a small school but about 200 students were just told to find a new collage and transfer there. Over the following years that school continued to dismantled every single tech program in favor of turning this school into just a satellite of the University of North Carolina. It kind of came out that the state department of education really wanted to kill off trade schools in favor of trying to get as many students into much more expensive university programs.

Oh boy, the Spirit Rock. That thing was installed in my college, right in front of the student center during my Junior Year of college. Of course, it was announced the same year they announced cuts to the music program, which I was in. It was meant to be painted to represent the school or whatever students wanted to advertise/push. Long story short, it did not, in fact, increase school spirit or promote unity. If anything, all it did was create a sense of division on campus. People started painting things with clearly charged messages on it and it had to be reset to default red a few times while I was there, it got so out-of-hand. Didn’t even look that good to begin with, either. Funny thing is, they already had a commemorative rock on the campus…next to the music building. The irony has yet to leave me on that one. When I returned to watch a performance after graduation, I found that infernal stone replaced with a nice fire pit with benches around it. Something that frankly appeared to promote student unity more than the spirit rock ever did. The catharsis I felt from that sight was indescribable. Good riddance, Spirit Rock.

They renovated the library this summer. A LIBRARY

My old school spent a ton of money, I have no idea how much, on getting tiles printed with art of a self portrait of every student so they could put them up on the wall of the main hallway to the office. The school didn’t have much funding and instead of using the funds to repair a main stairwell that was mostly used by the entire school, they wanted us to draw pictures of ourselves to go up on a wall. Later they announced they were buying 3D printers and other things and I just gave up on them. We were a small private school that was only still operating because of the church behind the school funding the school operations

My highschool spent thousands on a series of benches outside where the students could sit...you weren't allowed to sit on or stand near them. They also spent alot on new locks on outside gates. The gates were NOT allowed to be locked at any time.

When i was in year 2, we had a buddy bench. Kids did sit on it, but no one went to play with them so the teachers made one person from each year 2 class (so 3 kids) wear a bright green jacket so people would know theyre meant to be helping the lonely kids

I really hate morons like this who don't deserve to make decisions when EVERYONE involved knows and says it's stupid. Had that recently in our apartment building. We had a gym, running machine, bench press, weights and mattresses the works. Even had a shower recently reimplemented since the old got broke. Then suddenly during spring cleaning, they said some jackass had gone into the water pipe room "you have to go through it to the gym" and changed the values or pushed buttons. It wasn't serious but they decided to completely lock the room and throw away equipment worth thousands. Even one big machine, the one you train to give a big bear hug. Saying it was broken. My dad called bull cause he'd used it just a few days ago. And they had no idea what to replace it with. My dad had even just the week prior replaced the batteries on the weight scale. So super expensive machines nobody could ever have in their apartment only found at gyms, newly installed shower, fixed weight scale, music player and weights ALL gone with no foresight or idea for what to do instead. Me and my dad simply went dumpster diving into the container loaned for the cleaning and we swiped the weights, the scale and some other stuff from the gym. I even found an amazing rolling office chair with fluffy seat, head rest, arm support and it was stable as a mountain. It puts all gaming chairs to shame. Made a huge jackpot replacing the old dirty chair. My parents and are often complimenting it and being dumbfounded how anyone could throw away such a perfect mint condition and super expensive chair.

my primary school made a wooden climbing frame - everyone loved it! Then, the school started regulating how many people could go on it at a time - and wouldn't let us on it at break. something like 12 people at once in a school of over 600. people stopped using it and, even though i dont go there anymore, in the last year or so i was there it was completely abandoned.

The overvaluing of football teams is honestly infuriating. Honestly, by this point, we need laws that place high school sports teams as the lowest priority. Is there any real use to having a sports team at a high school?

I found the stories about laptops interesting, I bought a basic laptop for $299 five years ago, it works better than the new chromebooks my nieces got from school. To be fair, the first thing I did with my laptop was get rid of windows, the girls aren't allowed to get rid of chromeOS...

Headmiss of our school was notorious, at least in my eyes, for being purely image obsessed. She was good at making long, metaphorical speeches that amounted to nothing in reality... The issue was, all funding went to schools PR because she was clearly more interested in making celebrations and events than actually running the school. The computers were old, of course, the technology was outdated and toilets had periodic issues. It's a smaller elementary school, so it's just a funding thing, right? Wrong. At 75 years anniversary, the headmistress made a GIANT celebration that took place in the local house of culture, basically the town's centre for theatre, art and culture activities. There were notable guests, like local politicians who happened to be former students, they rented out the theatrical stage for students to make a half-assed performance, bells, whistles, and to top it off, she dumped a giant hunk of granite into the school playground with a brass plaque commemorating the occasion... and kids of course couldn't climb on it because of course they couldn't... I wonder how much cash that cost.

at my old school there was this thing called school council (or student council) where some selected students would be in a council and make decisions for some things (food choices at lunch, playground equipment, etc.) and they would have a budget. during covid my old school spent like half the budget on arrows and laminated signs telling you which side of the walkway you were supposed to be on, because of social distancing. it didnt work and no-one even followed the signs.

The TVs in every hallway featuring slideshows.... I think I went to that school, it was actually a lot more convenient than that because the daily announcements were broadcasted every morning and the slideshow changed when under lockdowns (thankfully we had only 2 externals). It's a little difficult to update a bulletin board on the fly, let alone multiples in every hallway while some armed lunatic is on the run.

My high school got a statue that looks almost like the principal at the time…

Fixing the playground. The only problem to it is that one ring on something you swing on and a swing that fell, also the fact that there is headphones on the chalkboard, but they didn't fix the headphones. They then "fixed" the playstructure by getting rid of a metal thing on a climbing structure that is more of a choking hazard and unstable then before.

I can agree, CROMEBOOKS ARE HELL

4:45 my elementary school had this in all rooms but only the music teacher and drama teacher would use it because the music teacher couldn't project her voice over recorders and the drama teacher used it as a voice changer in puppet shows. all other rooms had it but didn't use it because they could yell loud enough to get our attention and kindergartners would be pretty distracted from the teachers voice coming from the ceiling. kids would steal the microphone from time to time and pretend to be the announcements, scream mild profanity, etc. the school removed them and replaced them with 4k HDR Plasma screens to display the 144p interlaced morning announcements done by the 4th graders.

A social worker who does the opposite of what she's supposed to

Branch of the State University built a passive Solar heated building on Campus,,,in the wrong orientation ! Ironically the building was used for the Science Departments. We called it the "Morgue" because it was always so cold. The school always had a strong emphasis on Music Theater, and visual arts. It was not far from Woodstock and sufficient Pharmacuticals were consumed. That the '60's lasted well in to the '90's. Eventually an Engineering program was started, a new building was built, and nobody ever talked about it again.

Around 3 months ago, my class was notoriously known for being the troublemakers' class. This is when we were introduced to a box to put our cellphones in and lock them for the rest of the classes (only allowed to get them during recess). I kindly call it "Smartphones' Prison of Alcatraz". And now, my school and all other schools in the country are slowly but surely putting this cellphone box in every single classroom.

Yeah, I agree with the buddy bench being impractical since my school also had it and nobody used it besides waiting for their friend

The light up sign outside , all of the school and teachers believe funding could be used more effectivly

Years after I graduated, as the Internet was moving in (late nineties), the school forced the faculty to use an over-priced, junk grade book software that many of the teachers hated. There was already two or three different packages floating around the school that actually did what was needed by the teachers. I had been brought on for some other technical work and sat in on the training session they had. Yes, the admin did only _one_ training session. (The faculty was split into two groups, but only one session, each.) It was _immediately_ apparent that I would be spending the entire school year doing a far better job of explaining the software than the admin ever could. I had to have multiple one-to-one sessions with nearly _every_ teacher, in part to figure out workarounds to get their unique grading rules to work. The software was so bad that even with my current programming skills, I could have come up with something far better and for cheaper.

for me, it was new water fountains, after being promised new computers.

In the 80s my school bought some BBC micro computers, but none of the teachers were trained to use them, and while kids like me were knowledgeable in their use, only the teachers were allowed to demonstrate and supervise their use, so they just sat there barely touched for years.

My school bought us a merry go round with money we raised specifically to get one, then they WELDED IT TO THE GROUND so that it is "just as fun with none if the danger". Ironically, 3 people have gotten injured by hitting their shins against it, while the last school (which had a working merry go round) reported no injuries. What the #$@%, school.

story 14: i think some of the teachers had some of those in my high school. would occasionally use it as it did help project their voice but i think what they did use them for was for the actual deaf girl who was in my grade. she had a mic that the teachers used that connected to her hearing aid. She also had an interrupter however. I feel like one teacher had this in college it did help a bit but it often was too loud for me and my sensitive ears.

Chocolate microscopes. They used that really bitter chocolate that’s like eating tree bark. And it was unnecessary.

My school literally spent over a student’s entire tuition (over $20,000) on chicken for lunch. It was a private school.

My school just got a new basketball court. None of the boys bathrooms have actual locks.

Story 23: Same here.My school also added buddy benches a year before COVID,but as I have seen,never seen a student that isn’t hurt use it.Teachers use it to sit on while the students play,and the only students I’ve seen is if someone broke there leg or arm or something like that.Nobody other then that uses it because like Story 23,nobody wants to be known as the kid with no friends.Especially because my specific grade is brutal with not following directions and verbal bullying. My Own Story: Near the fence of my school,there use to be a little garden where in the middle there was a statue of Mother Mary (I go to a Catholic school),and around her were flat circular stones that signified the beads of a rosary.The staff liked it because it was place to pray,and the students liked it because that was a place to play.Also because there were a lot of sticks there where they could play fight with them.Well,the school decided they didn’t want the stone rosary anymore,and instead replaced them with these (in my opinion) ugly looking flowers that surrounded the statue.As far as I know,the students and staff don’t like it because it’s an eyesore to look at compared to the old rosary.Don’t know how expensive it was,but depending on the price to flowers were,how much it cost to take out the stones,and the money they had to pay to the parents that went to do it.I’d say roughly around 6-7,000 dollars they spent to make an eyesore of a change.

I also worked at a school were they played that Friday song every Friday.

I don't know about the "nobody liked" part because it was after I graduated, but my boys-only high school demolished and redesigned one section of the school in the late 2010s - before the rebuilding, there was a lot of open space (that boys liked to use for handball), but also a covered section underneath the classroom levels, along with a smaller canteen (that, in my early years, was for the Year 7-8 students that were based in this section). After the rebuilding, the smaller canteen's gone and everything's indoors now. It might _look_ nicer, but I never got the appeal of it.

They got rid of the totem pole in the cafeteria instead of improving the food

I don't know how expensive they were, but my school put smart boards into some classrooms. None of the teachers even tried to figure out how they worked, so they just became fancy surfaces for our ancient OHPs to project onto.

In elementary school, one year they got all new computers for the computer lab... They were those iMacs that had the different color shells... and were considered all-in-ones because the monitor and the actual computer was just one big piece... It seemed like they were always down. My class maybe got to use them once per year.

When I was in college there were multiple student protests, including walk outs that teachers took part in over the administration's handling of the school's money. Specifically, at the time they were building a 9 million dollar rec center/gym that nobody wanted. Even the athletic students who would actually benefit from it pointed out that they already had a perfectly good rec center on the other ways of campus, next to the athletic fields where they needed it. They had no need, use, or desire for a second one on the other side of campus. It was also being paid for primarily through hikes to tuition and student fees, and would take four years to build, so most of the people paying for it wouldn't even get to use it even if they did want to. I stopped registering after that semester because I was taking a chem lab and there weren't enough vacuum flasks, so some of us had to wait for other groups to completely finish their experiment before we could even start. So they had 9 million dollars to build a rec center that nobody wanted or needed, but could scrape together a few hundred bucks to equip the chemistry lab. I decided then that that school couldn't possibly give me a quality education and I was wasting my time and my parents money. This was during a time when the admin was laying off teachers, growing the administration, and cutting in-room sessions and assigning more online ones to force the teachers to take on more students without any additional pay or funding. Don't go to UNCG. Probably just steer clear of UNC altogether.

I work for a public school system. A lot of the people making these decisions are not the sharpest knives in the draw. Also, 99% of the time they just buy stuff so they can spend the money because if you don't use it the state won't give you as much the next year.

My school wasted their money on signs even though they already had signs and could’ve added better lunches and much more but decided against that and wasted their money on the signs

My school Spent 9 grand on a Table, yes a TABLE! (To be fair the table was quite nice)

Love at 13:58 when he mentioned the cafeteria, the game character goes to the cafeteria in game cool

Story #3 is a great example of abusive school programs

"First, G_d made an idiot. That was for practice. Then He made a school board." Mark Twain.

I had a buddy bench at my school but people would play with some mats we had and people would fight each other

I’m pretty sure cutting down a memorial tree is like illegal or something?

My highschool does spend a lot of it's budget, but we have the nicest school in my area, and I am happy about it, we have a really good PLTW program, an anchor system on the doors (for the school shooting ~4 years ago) that can be deployed rapidly. No money wasted, no expense spared, the perfect place. Well... I mean the vending machines that work only carry energy drinks, coffee, and some wierd mountain dew zero stuff chock full of artificial sweeteners INCLUDING aspartame. Besides that 5 stars... 4 stars because that's how they rate these things I guess... Also we have the best athletic training programs in the state.

I go to a public school, so there are a lot of issues with handling our funds already (thank you Canadian government) and we needed more money to pay for a new playground for the younger kids. Instead of paying to buy new equipment so the young kids couldn't hurt themselves on the 20 year old equipment, they rented a Limo. A limo. Everyone was pissed off.

In my 3rd year of high school, the principal decided to install in virtual clocks that showed the hour, minute, and second You may ask how this was a waste, well three things, one, students spread rumors that there were cameras that were still spread after they said they didn't. Two, we had computers that pretty much did the same thing and normal clocks. And three, they had speakers they decided to used (instead of the normal speakers) that sound worse than a broken ps1, and we had speakers that worked pretty well. They pretty much wasted money on clocks they already had, and they still left the old ones in those rooms, so they gave us two clocks.

This was about 6 years ago. our school spent over £2000 per unit on about 50 iMac Pros. This was a primary (elementary for the americans) school in the uk, and none of the teachers knew how to use them. They ended up just sitting on the default screen saver most of the time.

In my middle school in about $2000 to spend. They could’ve installed an air conditioning system, but no they decided to repaint the tiles on the floor of the CAFETERIA

15:35 Where I live,laminated ID cards are normal in school and I thought it was normal everywhere,you learn something new every day,also where Im from the ID cards usually aren't used for opening doors or scanning,just to identify you and your parents phone numbers.

My school put 4,000 dollars into two buddy benches on the yard. (My school is an outside school) Literally none of them were used for their intended purpose. We just sat their with people and talked.

Scoreboards are like the easiest cheapest thing

9:13 I had a buddy bench at me elementary school. No one used it for buddies but just as a normal bench. I mainly used it because it was the only bench in the shade so I could read

North Dakota State University build sunk in amphitheater seating just outside the student union, part of the drive to spend money when they went to Division 1. I laughed my ass off whn I saw it, it was a giant concrete bowl in the ground...with no draining. North Dakota gets snow and rain, and that was going to flood bad. And it did. I have a friend who used to work in that building, and every spring the carpets and wall were just dripping with water because it was so close to the building and held so much water. The next year they ripped it out. My tuition went up so a failed civics engineering student could build their little project only to be torn out the next year.

The story about the school that spent $200k to paint the road....that sounds absolutely like embezzlement of funds.....

Went to a grammar school in the UK. I don't know if the school received or saved up some money during my time there, but the only times they spent money on was that they refurbished only the girls toilets and not included the boys toilets in that project, replaced the flooring in the students social areas from carpeting to anti-slip flooring due to the bad weather we get and the leaking ceiling that they didn't fixed and they bought new desks, but they were only used during pre-exams and exams season, while the desks in the classrooms were either chipped, cracked, wobbly, top of the desk was hanging off or completely off the metal frame or all above. Over the time I went there, floor tiles were either worn down, crack or was missing and the ceiling tiles were either water stained, broken/chipped, half of it was missing or the entire tile was missing. They started building the new school the summer that I left and opened it the summer after my eldest nephew left 2 years later.

My secondary school during the Covid 19 emergency removed the lockers for senior cycle until my last year at the school. The metalwork and engineering teachers made good use of their 3D printer, the computers and IT classes were great, Home Economics and the other practical subjects were great we had wonderful PE classes with options such as basketball, baseball, rounders, Gym if you were senior cycle, Athletics, Pool. We had tv’s with information on them regarding holiday’s, locker clean outs other wise the caretakers wouldn’t be pleased.

Some of these stories are like why even bother spending money on something that no one's gonna like.

My school just made a fun activity of painting a mural and repainting the tables instead of hiring someone to do it for them.

I thought the buddy bench was just my school. So stupid 🙄