The main one is a local district tearing down a relatively new middle school (15-20 years old) to build a fancier one of approximately the same size. The new one has a massive two story glass face to it (expensive) and is overall not made out of robust materials. Who designed this? In my day, schools served as emergency shelters and where built to last. There was nothing wrong with the old building and the space is essentially the same size.

There's an obsession (around here at least) that the schools need more money for fancier stuff, and that somehow this will produce better grades.