I fully agree. You could build two simple, yet effective and cost-efficient schools for the price of one of these resorts they seem to like to build. You don't need to wake Frank Lloyd Wright from his grave to design and build an effective school building.
I live in the Teays Valley District which is notorious for almost always passing it's levies. Two years ago, they hit everyone up so they could build 3-4 new schools, which is fine. However, they don't seem to think far enough ahead as to how they are going to pay to operate these new schools. So, here we are again, asking for more money to run these things. I think Teays Valley has built 6 BRAND NEW schools (that I can think of) in the past 5 years and added on several huge additions to the central high school. The new elementary school they added in S. Bloomfield has a student to teacher ratio of only 13:1!!! Really? Shut that motherfucker down until you actually need it.
Thankfully, the vote for this year's levy is still up in the air. It's damn near tied at this moment. I'm praying it fails.
/rant