What did your school waste money on that nobody liked?

They made a huge screen with four plasma screens and put it in a very random place in a random building hall.

All four just constantly said no signal and nothing else.

Name tags. Shortly after Columbine and all those other shootings peaked in frequency.

It was supposed to keep outsiders from getting in the school unnoticed and shooting everyone.

But at the time, people doing the shootings were always students, so we joke that they were bulletproof.

This does sound like one of those decisions that was made in response to something happening

in current events, and maybe wasn't exactly thought through all the way.

Some of my classmates won a bunch of money for our school. Our school was one of the lowest

funded schools in the district. The district took the money and spent it on another school.

Maybe that school needed it more or needed it for something really important, but yeah,

either way, that doesn't seem

fair on surface level.

The large schoolyard at my school had a set of planters in the center.

There were basically four triangles made of brick that pointed in at each other and created

an X-shaped walkway between.

The outside sides had a bench each attached.

People would sit and chat to each other

on the benches, teachers and students alike. There was very little litter or vandalism. The plants

were kind of pretty and so far as any secondary schooler would care to notice. One year, a duck

made her nest in one of the planters, and apart from a few, oh, hey, a duck nest comments,

it was left alone. Then, for some reason, the school decided to rip the planners out, took them

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