Looking for your “recovery summer?” It’s at the Taj Ma-High, right next to the two auditoriums and the “Simulated Outdoor Area.”
From my Boston Herald column today:
…the recovery is there. You just have to know where to look for it.
Sure, if you’re a blue-collar worker competing with illegal-immigrant labor, times are pretty tough. But if you’re in the $200 million high school business, you’re booming!
Struggling taxpayers looking for prosperity just have to drive through Newton and check out the new 400,000 square-foot high school with its two theaters, two gymnasiums, its fully-functional television studio and an SOA or “simulated outdoor area.” Happy days are obviously here again when students are provided Kindle book readers and teachers use “interactive white boards” in wireless-tech classrooms.
Some people would feel a bit uncomfortable with such an ostentatious display of taxpayer-funded wealth during this economic downturn, but not in Newton. They are more than happy to show off their computer labs and “Starbucks-style cafe.” So what if the final construction cost was around $480 per square foot - three times the average for commercial construction in New York City? Who cares if it cost more than $100,000 per pupil? We’re with the government and we’re livin’ large!
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“If a young adult cannot produce enough of value to justify being paid a living wage, nothing we do to the minimum wage will help. He, the institutions which trained him and the society in which he lives, have far bigger problems."
--Economist Tim Harford 
