According to the Missouri Education Watchdog blog, the Kirkwood school district in the St. Louis area has proposed a new bond issue to build new classrooms and an aquatic center. Asked how it would put teachers in the classrooms, well....
When the district official was queried on where the teachers were going to come from and how they were to be paid to fill these new classrooms (Kirkwood is currently deficit spending), the official, in all seriousness, said, "We're not going to staff these rooms". What? This is the district's response to a question about spending money for teachers we don't currently have? So the next question is, "why are you building these rooms if they are not needed"? Doesn't that seem common sense to you?
We didn't get a firm answer to that question, other than the classrooms "may not end up being regular classrooms, they could be used for resource rooms or for other reasons".
It makes a certain sense in a sense of sense only available to public officials who think similar to real business people: Expand, expand, expand! Or, Step 1: Collect revenue. Step 3: Educated children!
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