$32 MILLION/yr. for the Next 10 Years for City Schools?

[genghiskhanraven]

so where has all that money gone since the 70's?

Are we to beleive there has been no repair and maintenance $$$ in school budgets for 3 decades?

find out where the $$$ went before you throw more good $$$ after bad...

They want the 2 billion and for everyone to just "trust" them with it.
remember just this year the city schools said an outside audit of them was unnessasary and a waste of taxpayer money

[techbalt]

You have to love the excuses people make here.... this is part of the reason that the school system is able to get away with the crimes they get away with.

There are costs with owning empty to near empty buildings. They add up. They are totally unnecessary.

No AC in school buildings? I remember on July 14th when I was walking to my friend's house in Bolton Hill (around the time the Orioles finally beat the Tigers) I cut through the Mount Royal Elementary/Middle school property and the window AC units WERE STILL RUNNING. In the summer. On a Weekend. At night.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/recap?id=320714101

[boink]

In the 1990s I worked for a firm that had a contract to perform energy audits of Baltimore City Public Schools.

During one audit of an elementary school on a cold, winter day, we found that the pneumatic control system for regulating the boiler was shot and the boiler was running wide open.

Classrooms were 80 degrees plus.

I noticed one student sitting at his desk still wearing his coat.

When I asked him why he didn't take it off and hang it on the coat rack, he said he was afraid it would get stolen.

[Marshan Man]

You have to love the excuses people make here.... this is part of the reason that the school system is able to get away with the crimes they get away with.

There are costs with owning empty to near empty buildings. They add up. They are totally unnecessary.

No AC in school buildings? I remember on July 14th when I was walking to my friend's house in Bolton Hill (around the time the Orioles finally beat the Tigers) I cut through the Mount Royal Elementary/Middle school property and the window AC units WERE STILL RUNNING. In the summer. On a Weekend. At night.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/recap?id=320714101

Yep window units in most of the schools that do have AC. There are a select few that have central air. Like I said before those were most likely in the administrators' offices vs. the classrooms.

As far as cooling over the weekend. Administrators jobs tend to be pretty uch year round. That's not even counting if summer school's in session. Either way have you ever come back into a hot building on a Monday? It's not conducive to productivity and/or a learning enviornment.

Of course since you've probably attended schools that were well heated/cooled over weekends you may not be so familiar....do you know if it's official policy of BCPSS to keep the little bit of AC they have running over the wknd?

Do you know what the policy is in Baltimore County? Any of the ther jurisdictions? Do you believe it should be official policy for ALL jurisdictions to not heat/cool their vbuilding that sit empty over the weekend?

It seems you want that only for Balto. City. It seems almost punitive... I'm trying to get your angle...sometimes I question your motives as they pertain to the city. It certainly seems there's a little covert passive-aggressive maliciousness in the mix at times...

[Marshan Man]

In the 1990s I worked for a firm that had a contract to perform energy audits of Baltimore City Public Schools.

During one audit of an elementary school on a cold, winter day, we found that the pneumatic control system for regulating the boiler was shot and the boiler was running wide open.

Classrooms were 80 degrees plus.

I noticed one student sitting at his desk still wearing his coat.

When I asked him why he didn't take it off and hang it on the coat rack, he said he was afraid it would get stolen.

This has what to do with this thread? So it's a waste of money to have the boiler running full blast, but it takes money to fix it. What's your suggestion? Or did you this post this for our entertainment?

[Virginia Poe]

so where has all that money gone since the 70's?

Are we to beleive there has been no repair and maintenance $$$ in school budgets for 3 decades?

find out where the $$$ went before you throw more good $$$ after bad...

WOW! This makes entirely too much SENSE for the braindead voters of Maryland who have NO IDEA where the money goes. It sure as hell hasn't helped educate the dumbed down sheeple has it?? Keep on taxin us O'Shamelss and CO...after all it is for Da Cheeelrin......

[EL-FLIPPO]

Same in the county. Hereford High, Catonsville High. Hell Catonsville Elementary is ancient.

I used to play Chess at Catonsville Elementary in the early 90's. It was going down then - the parts that I saw.

[It used to be a pretty nice restaurant across the street.]

[bmore_ken]

sometimes I question your motives as they pertain to the city. It certainly seems there's a little covert passive-aggressive maliciousness in the mix at times...

I get that impression as well.

[bmore_ken]

Keep on taxin us O'Shamelss and CO...after all it is for Da Cheeelrin......

Yet you're still here. Smart move

[bystander]

A lot of city schools are in pretty bad shape. But school officials will probably spend the money on magic beans instead.

Or holding cells. Last time I visited a city school, it was Patterson High where my wife attended. I couldn't believe my eyes! She's a teacher and actually cried to see what a mess her Alma Mater had become.