The administration of our educational system can say that they employ experts to discern where money is spent, but any group of people can’t know everything, so why not have more? One simple solution is to just let students decide what they want to do with the money allocated to each school, for ERHS, that’s $17,064,882. When asked about the budget, one senior said that while they appreciated how underfunded the school’s aquatics sports are, “there’s bigger priorities than [the pool on the roof] being more accessible” another
said that accessibility is “foundational” to the school’s pool, and must be prioritized. While some roofing opinions remain divided among the student body, some unite. As an example, 100% ± 100% of students agreed that one eighth of the school’s budget should be used to buy pie for the students, in order to stay true to the principle of the matter.
Teachers are underpaid systemically. Some students, unprompted*, suggested that the school should prioritize cutting security, as one student stated “they don’t do anything” and another saying “let me think about that” before being interrupted by a teacher. 63% ± 100% of students said that “teacher salaries should be based on how nice they are to students,” which, if curved, could prove to negate some budgetary issues.
Whenever I hear “the Roosevelt way” all I hear is “buzzword buzzword buzzword.” Why don’t we do this the real Roosevelt way? Not the Eleanor Roosevelt way, but the Franklin D. Roosevelt way. According to my calculations, an excess of $1,000,000 could be spent to help buy bonds from the federal government.* One student called this* “genius” and another called the idea* “revolutionary.”
In conclusion, who cares? What are they gonna do, stop giving us money? Do what you want.
*Untrue, Facetious, or Misleading statement