I wish my kids could attend a $350 million high school!

[osprey4]

The surprising part is that the newly opened $350 million Edward R. Roybal Learning Center is not in New Jersey, but California.

The school resembles a college campus, with several classroom buildings surrounding a landscaped courtyard. It boasts a gym with capacity to hold 3,000, a large dance studio with cushioned maple floors, 480 underground parking spaces - and a $17 million toxic gas mitigation system that costs $250,000 a year to operate.

Geez, for that much, you'd think they'd at least have put a small NFL stadium nearby.

[Epidemic]

wow 116,000 per student.

That is perty nice.

the air system though is pretty economical. it only costs 83 dollars per year per student. I wonder if their grades will improve now with the manicured lawn and fresh air.

[GroundZero3]

Wait this is a public school? I would be throwing a fit to see my tax money going to that

[Epidemic]

amazing ain't it!!!

[Epidemic]

So instead of building 10 adequate schools to serve 30,000 students and give teachers a more enticing salary we will build a palace.

I would like to see the minutes from those school board meetings

[surreal]

I see no one read the article before they complained about it.

[no1_vern]

Old and busted: RTFA
New Hotness: Whining for no reason at all!

before fears grew about toxic gases rising from an old oil field upon which it was built.
Construction was halted in 2000, then resumed in 2002 only to be thwarted again, this time by the discovery of an earthquake fault that crosses the site.

Lengthy investigations by the county district attorney's office, the city attorney and the California attorney general found no criminal wrongdoing, but in 2003 District Attorney Steve Cooley labeled the project "a public works disaster of biblical proportions."

The school became a symbol of bureaucratic ineptitude and wasted taxpayer money. The ensuing scandal swept a district superintendent and almost half the school board out of office.

You really want your kids to go to a school that lies on a fault, and built on top of an old oil field??

[The Real Bingo]

For that price, you think they would've had a name like "The Coca-Cola Learning Center".

[Epidemic]

Originally Posted by surreal

I see no one read the article before they complained about it.

Oh that explains it.

a school for students costs 350 million because it is on a fault and has stinky oil smells.

There ya go!



How bout this you find out it is gonna cost you 17,000,000 to put in an air system and you say no thanks... I can buy new property and put regular air in it for that much money.

[surreal]

You don't understand the layout of Los Angeles.
I think it's in the downtown area where there used to be open tar pits.
And
That much money isn't as much there as other places. They are inner city kids that will have a great new school to attend.
Hmmm if I remember correctly the last huge new Los Angeles inner city school was riddled with gang problems when it was opened and took a poop fast.....