"Psycho Vomit"

Whether or not I used rex?s information is irrelevant, it happens explain a great number of the myths and inaccurate statements that revolve around school spending, and deserves to be heard. As for your solutions, god willing we may someday have an administration competent enough to follow them through on them. Right now, school spending seems to be closed to ideas like yours, regardless of how logical they may be (the average processor speed on the new dells is around 2 Ghz). We need to change the way that we go about spending money. With regards to the proceeds that high school sports generates, its true that little to none of any fees collected will ever find its way back into the sports programs that earned it. For years Hopkins was able to get away with using a bottomless pool of referendum/property tax money with minimal concern for how effectively that money is being used. With shrinking budgets, school districts a like Hopkins are shooting themselves in the foot with decades old spending practices that breed poor use of resources and beaucratic waste. In regards to AP, everyone is going to feel the pinch. I?m all for using that "bricks and mortar" money to subsidize tests, but right now the law doesn?t allow for that, and the school through a combo of shrinking funds and ineffective spending doesn't have the money to fill the void the state legislature created. Spending practices need to change as the tax payers who have unselfishly donated so much of their money to our education deserve nothing less than effective and well thought out spending.