CutieMouse
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Do the Bachmanite families send their kids to private schools? At least they're ideologically consistent.
As for Allen, what I'd love to see are the high school's computer and science facilities.
My personal opinion on government spending, and control of the means of whatever, is that the government should step in when private investors can not do the job efficiently or effectively, and when the best interests of the general public would be at odds with the best interests of the investors themselves. A lavish stadium falls into neither of those categories, in my view, so I would have voted NO on that referendum.
Allen HS offers the International Baccalaureate program as well as Advanced Placement classes. I feel safe saying that AISD puts a bit of effort into academics. their graduating class this year will be 1,151 students.
I only took a few minutes to browse the school & district websites, and couldn't find exactly what I was looking for, but for comparison, my children are in a little community about an hour away, with a graduating class of 369.
My children's district is building a new state of the art 3 story high school facility... several years AFTER building the [college size] football stadium; the remainder of the athletic program buildings/fields/training rooms/etc were the first priority in building the new high school (the athletics wing is already completed and being used). They will have state of the art science labs (their dad teaches physics and chemistry for the HS), each student will have their own laptops checked out via the school library, and they already have an excellent Advanced Placement class structure in place.
The football stadium is FULL every freaking Friday. It's the town's entertainment, and the community pays $ every Friday night to watch those boys do the football thing and the girls do the drill team thing.
It's surreal, it's (IMO) weird, but it's Texas. I mean we're talking about a world where people *cried* when they imploded the old Texas Stadium last week, and tried to sneak away pieces of broken cement as mementos.