20 of the Dumbest Things Schools Have Wasted Money On

‘A clock tower with no clock’
20 of the Dumbest Things Schools Have Wasted Money On

Schools will do literally anything with their money to avoid paying teachers a living wage. How else do you explain building a clock tower without including a clock? Or creating an “anatomically ambitious” statue of the school’s mascot? And while yes, we’d like to see the mascot, that’s beside the point. 

Redditors have sounded off about the dumbest things they’ve seen schools waste money on, and we have more than a few questions about the carbonated milk investment. 

RogueSpartan в 8y ago . Edited 8y ago These rocks..I shit you not. Each one costs two grand. If that's not a metaphor for the education system I don't know what is. 998 Share ...
Virtual_Labyrinth 8y ago We had chairs that you could sit on while you were waiting outside the classroom for class to start. People fucked around with them alot and they were trashed so our awesome janitor volunteered to make new ones by himself to reduce costs, so the school funded the material cost. They were really nice but they got fucked immediately so the school ended up having to buy new ones anyway. We didn't deserve it. 1.8K Share ...
yellowstar93 . 8y ago A football stadium. We don't even have a football team. 384 Share ...
PuffMadClouds 4y ago My college spent $200,000 on a conference table...it made national headlines 440 Share ...
kawaiisienna 4y ago When I was still a student, my school spent almost 200k to paint the roads outside our school. You read that right. Almost $200,000 of our Precious Tuition Dollars to PAINT the ROADS OUTSIDE blue and yellow. To pour salt on this painful wound, the paint job didn't even make it through winter. So just to reiterate, Two Hundred Thousand Dollars for 3 months of painted road. I think I'm still angry about it. 5.2K Share ...
_Sp4rk3y_ E 4y ago My High school wasted a ton of money buying two golf carts. Their reasoning was it allowed staff to get to any dangerous scenes faster. Except we never had any accidents and they were mostly used for joy rides by the hall monitors. 14K Share ...
LoxyTheReindeer . 4y ago . Edited 4y ago Murals in the bathrooms that replaced the mirrors.
Recyclops3000 4y ago Our school paid to cover a huge lot with cement just to have a ceremony on it announcing a new building. Then they tore it up 2 months later to start construction. My schools fees went towards having nice cement for press pictures. What a joke. Share 226 ...
mywifemademegetthis 4y ago I'm a teacher. My first year, the school leader bought a ping pong table for the lounge in an attempt to make school more fun and relaxing. It simply became a surface to put copies on. 12K Share ...
Sleestak714 4y ago When 65 TV's were like $4K a pop they set about 8 of them around campus that just displayed the time. $4,000.00 clocks. Not to mention whatever they used as a video source to send to the display. Share 4.2K ...
 . 4y ago A 3D printer that the teachers won't learn how to use so now nobody is allowed to use it 33K Share ...
Maddie-Moo 4y ago My high school purchased a vending machine that only contained Swerve. What is Swerve, you ask? Carbonated milk. 4.6K Share ...
 4y ago Trash cans with the school logo on them and banners. They tried hyping us up about new trash cans on the morning show. 12K Share ...
Alexander_Pope_Hat . 4y ago An anatomically... ambitious statue of our animal mascot. 3.2K Share ...
 4y ago They made a huge screen with 4 huge plasma screens and put it in a very random place in a very random building hall NO SIGNAL - NO SIGNAL NO SIGNAL - NO SIGNAL 1.3K Share ...
a_vaught 4y ago с Edited 4y ago New tv's in the cafeteria that just show the morning announcements Edit: They already send out emails that have the morning announcements in them 6.6K Share ...
 4y ago a clock tower with no clock 1.6K Share ...
CharisJacox 4y ago 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 joked they were bulletproof. 14K Share ...
 4y ago iPads for the kindergarten. They were intended to have educational apps on them that kids could play on at indoor recess. Believe it or not, most kindergarteners would rather play on the swings or play with dolls than learn to write their name on an app. No one used them, no one liked them and they all broke within two months. 8.9K Share ...
reincarN8ed 8y ago A mother fucking pipe organ. Like the second largest in the Midwest (as if that was something to be proud of). And in subsequent years, tuition more than DOUBLED!! So really the broke-ass students bought a fucking pipe organ that none of them even wanted. Thanks ONU administration. 433 Share ...

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