I feel like public ed buildings are between a rock and a hard place -- if they built something really high quality in terms of either design or materials, ESPECIALLY something that's for the administration for the school district (not being used by students) they'd be accused of abusing taxpayer dollars and public trust. So...we end up with things like this. When Granite School District bought the abandoned hospital at 2500 S State (I worked in it for 6 years) people called it the "Taj Mahal"...I can only imagine what they would say if a school district were to build something truly lovely or innovative.
So...we get this.
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