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   Oliver Wendell Jones, Sep 13th, 2004 @ 10:49am

   
   

   So, 18,180 rooms and if we figure an average of 45 students per room then that works out to 818,100 students which when divided into $269M works out to an average per student cost of only $328.81.
   
   Anybody want to make any bets as to how many of those 18,180 rooms actually have computers in them to hook to the internet?

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   Wrong Line of Work

   

   Gary Potter, Sep 13th, 2004 @ 10:52am

   
   

   Wow, I'm in the wrong line of work.

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   Chris, Sep 13th, 2004 @ 11:33am

   
   

   Well, it is Chicago. They have to make sure all the kiddies are well informed since most of them are probably on the voter rolls!

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   hanzie, Sep 14th, 2004 @ 4:12am

   
   

   Or, to add an even more surreal per-room cost: $269M fo 18,180 rooms means 14.796 dollars per room. What did they do, rebuild the rooms from scratch?!
   It's good to know our tax dollars are being well spent...

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   Failure of This Program Due to Corruption and Mis-

   

   Imnotta Daleygoon, Sep 14th, 2004 @ 5:35am

   
   

   This program failed for a variety of reasons.
   
   Mismanagment at the highest levels of funding for wiring the schools. Ironically, these schools are in the poorest neighborhoods. No one in the city that can afford to, sends their kids to public schools just for this reason.
   
   No-bid contracts given out to friends of the established political monarchy are another reason for this immense failure. Although the city will vehemently state, that no-bid contracts are "appropriate" in some cases.

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