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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I pay thousands per year in school taxes and the vast majority goes to school administrators making 6 figures. We can't just toss more money at schools to fix this - we need legislation stating how the money is used. The money needs to go to the kids and teachers instead of clueless rich people.

[–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Vote in your local elections, join the PTA, tell your friends how fucked it is and ask them to vote. You can't legislate yourself out of this as school boards regularly mismanage funds for decades.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's what happend at my highschool. There was a year we couldn't even afford paper but we were a school of over 2000 kids. Not a wealthy area by any means, but with all those taxes from all those families you'd think basic supplies wouldn't be an issue.

It wouldn't have been an issue if one of the administrators wasn't fucking stealing money from us... I don't even mean they had too high of a salary, I mean they were literally stealing money...

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Dude, read the room. We are in the era of the oligarch.

MOST money will go to the clueless rich who do not need it and we will continue to slide into french revolution levels of wealth gap.