Is PWCS Wasting Taxpayer Money?
by pwceducationreform
Is the Prince William County School Board being spending our money wisely? I ask this, in part, because of the debate over the pool that will be built in the 12th high school.
Most of us aren’t so wealthy that cost doesn’t play a role in the decisions we make for our families. When we need a new car, we tend to buy something we can afford that meets our families needs, even though the Maserati would be so cool. We don’t put in granite counter-tops or buy new stainless steel refrigerators unless we can afford them.
I expect that our elected school board members and school division employees will apply the same level of financial caution when they consider spending my tax dollars. The debate over the pool has made me question whether our elected officials are being good stewards of my money.
Until I spoke at the school board meeting last week and raised the issue of the pool, the school division had not admitted that a pool was included in the plans for the 12th high school. Nowhere on the PWCS web site was there any reference to the pool. Estimates for the cost of building the pool in a school building could not be found on the PWCS web site nor had they