67 New TVs for East Ridge Elementary

[plasticone]

From the Sunday TFP - Page B6 - "On Wednesday, the Hamilton County Commission approved several items, including: ...

Purchase of 67 televisions and wall mounts for East Ridge
Elementary for $22,727.

..."

I had to look - according to the HCDE website, East Ridge Elementary has 309 students.

That's 1 TV for every 5 students!.

Now I know why we need to increase the HCDE budget - they are barely getting by. 5 students need to share a TV! Certainly we can afford to provide our children the tools they need for learning. A chicken in every pot and a TV for every child!

[Police Moderator]

A chicken in every pot and a TV for every child!

Or for 40 acres and an ass you could visit the Police Blotter and read a Duke post.

For free and no taxpayer money involved.

[cadillacdude1975]

when i was in school, we didnt need any fucking TVs. that was a huge waste of money that oculd have been used elsewhere.

[exccinsider]

In all fairness, I'm sure those TV's are for the NEW East Ridge Elementary school, which combines both East Ridge and McBrian.

[plasticone]

If it is for the NEW East Ridge Elementary school, that makes so much more sense since there are 205 students at McBrian. That would be a total of 514 students using the 67 TVs. A ratio of one TV for every 8 students seems much more logical. I guess they will probably only have a maximum class size of 10 students since they obviously have a large number of classrooms for their student population.