Where I lived it was constant battle for the school to get the budget it needed. My town had a higher percentage of conservative and elderly citizens than surrounding towns, and they almost always voted the budget down to where the school could barely function.
They were constantly cutting courses and programs, and there was even a point after I graduated that my brother had to suffer through, where they had removed the dropped ceiling, because the tiles were beginning to rot, and it took them over two years to replace it because the budget kept getting voted down. So for two years, my brother and the other students had to suffer through school with exposed vents and pipes above their heads and zero sound proofing.
We even had to share some of our sports teams with a nearby school... not because our school wasn't big enough to have the teams, as there were over 1000 kids at the school, but because the school couldn't afford the teams.
That and the school administration was a bunch of Nazis who did things like the school that banned that kid from prom for posting the sign, only they never backed down on anything like that school ended up doing.
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