I was just wondering how many of the people here have lotteries in their state? If so, are you having the same problems as we are or is it just the incompetent idiots that runs ours?
We've only had a lottery for a few years now and I haven't seen it help our schools at all. There have been graduates that have went to college through funding from the lottery but there has been little to no help in our elementary, middle, and high schools. Yeah helping people go to college is great but what about grades K-12? Wouldn't it help to start with those schools to get them the education they need to graduate and go on to college? Our state lottery has deposited over $732,000,000 as of January of this year and last I looked, they had over $8 million in the school bus fund yet I haven't seen a single new bus here in years. At the beginning of the school year, I had to send things like tissue, soap, hand sanitizer, paper towels, plastic cups, the list goes on. Not to mention they had to have the necessities like notebook paper, pencils, scissors, glue, etc. Then you've got numerous field trips, $3 for this, $5 for that and $16 for paperback yearbooks. And I had to do this for two kids that are in elementary school and my oldest son is in middle school and they'll drain your money even more there ($35 for a yearbook that is no thicker than a magazine). Then our schools are shitty. The middle school my son goes to is the old high school building that is at least 40 years old, my dad went to high school there in 1961. There's overcrowding in both the high schools in the area yet nothing is being done to build new buildings.
Now why am I having to supply the school with these things? Where is the lottery money going? Buying new cars for the people that go around putting up signs and whatnot in the convenience stores, that's where.
So is it just here that this is happening or is every state with a lottery going through the same thing? Also, if your state has a lottery, do you support it or play it and if you don't have one, would you support it coming to your state?
We've only had a lottery for a few years now and I haven't seen it help our schools at all. There have been graduates that have went to college through funding from the lottery but there has been little to no help in our elementary, middle, and high schools. Yeah helping people go to college is great but what about grades K-12? Wouldn't it help to start with those schools to get them the education they need to graduate and go on to college? Our state lottery has deposited over $732,000,000 as of January of this year and last I looked, they had over $8 million in the school bus fund yet I haven't seen a single new bus here in years. At the beginning of the school year, I had to send things like tissue, soap, hand sanitizer, paper towels, plastic cups, the list goes on. Not to mention they had to have the necessities like notebook paper, pencils, scissors, glue, etc. Then you've got numerous field trips, $3 for this, $5 for that and $16 for paperback yearbooks. And I had to do this for two kids that are in elementary school and my oldest son is in middle school and they'll drain your money even more there ($35 for a yearbook that is no thicker than a magazine). Then our schools are shitty. The middle school my son goes to is the old high school building that is at least 40 years old, my dad went to high school there in 1961. There's overcrowding in both the high schools in the area yet nothing is being done to build new buildings.
Now why am I having to supply the school with these things? Where is the lottery money going? Buying new cars for the people that go around putting up signs and whatnot in the convenience stores, that's where.
So is it just here that this is happening or is every state with a lottery going through the same thing? Also, if your state has a lottery, do you support it or play it and if you don't have one, would you support it coming to your state?
