I mean how else do you explain spending $60M on a high school football stadium that two years later may have to be demolished due to structural problems with the foundation.
I wish I were joking, but instead of teaching kids how to handle a budget, or build relationships, or hiring qualified energetic teachers or even giving high performing teachers some sort of bonus, Allen ISD was busy building a monument to itself.
Are we surprised it is coming crashing down?
Okay, literally it is not crashing down, but it may need a partial tear down. Two years later? Wow.
Already firms are lining up to say they are covered by insurance, but aren't there bigger issues here, like do we need to spend THAT much on a stadium in the first place, and two, if for whatever reason we think that is the right investment of limited education dollars, it ought to be done right...say, the first time?
For me, this is another sign of the same hubris that brought us Jerry World in Arlington. It is oh so easy to spend other people's money to build a billion dollar stadium, but oh so hard, to actually get a contender. This is Allen's Tower of Babel and no one should be surprised when everyone starts speaking in tongues blaming someone else.
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