California school district buys $14,000 espresso maker to save jobs. Or something.

**Posted by Phineas

"For the children?"
“For the children?”

No, really.

The break room coffee machine is a staple of many a workplace. Usually though, it tends to fall on the β€œeconomical” or β€œvalue” side of the java spectrum.

But not in Castro Valley, California, where officials with the Castro Valley Unified School District are taking fire for the purchase of a $14,000 espresso maker.

The outrage was immediate. According to KPIX News in San Francisco, the school board’s facebook page was flooded with angry comments when word of the pricey espresso maker – paid for with taxpayer money – got out.

According to a school board official, buying the espresso machine was “an opportunity” to keep a part-time child nutritionist on staff. If you can’t see that, you must hate the children.

Though how a $14,000 espresso maker for the staff and child nutrition go together is a bit baffling. When I was in fourth grade, we were served chocolate milk, not a double shot.

And for an additional fourteen grand per year, maybe they could have made that nutritionist full-time? Or used it to… Oh, I don’t know. Buy new textbooks and school supplies for the kids?

Silly me. I guess a Mr. Coffee is just too dΓ©classΓ© for the Castro Valley school board.

Can’t wait to see the board members justify this to the voters.

(Crossposted at Public Secrets)

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