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Ray Stillman commented on If you had $100 billion to give away, how would you spend it? on October 1, 2009, 10:04 PM

Quite honestly, in my town, our high school is falling apart at the seams. I'm currently a sophomore there and when I was on student council for a year, I constantly heard conplaints about leaking ceilings and piping coming off the walls in the locker rooms. Recently, there was an idea to regionalize with a couple other towns in my area, to have one large high school. (One of those towns' students go to my school as it is now, since they are a small town.) I hate to see my school fall apart. It was built during the cold war and my dad and all of my siblings went there, as well as half of the teachers in my town. I would donate the majority of the money to build a new high school which would be as enviromentally friendly as possible and be big enough for all three towns to regionalize without worrying about the financial crisis. (Part of the reason we are in a financial crisis is because one of our past superintendents embezzabled a quarter of a million dollars from our school treasury.)