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In response to Sarah I had similarities to your school but not in the same way. My school was also incredibly undiverse, with the large majority of students being white. My school had allocation problems as yours did with money being given to your football team. My shcool dumped all of the district's avialable funds plus more into the new school buliding leaving no mone you basicly supplys or to even replace retiring teachers. Teachers had to pay for things suh as tissues, dry-erase markers, and even pencils and papers out of pocket. Many teachers that retired would be replaced with only one teacher for every two open positions or even not at all. At the begining of this school year one administrator was given three different high ranking roles

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