Why is a single building for a middle school going to cost the entire budget of this bond measure?

This is such waste and excess. Think of what could be done with that money, were a simplified and still safe and effective rebuild substituted for this grossly offensive and overdone design. Not 10 miles away is a school district where they cannot afford school supplies or backpacks. I’m ashamed of this embarrassing situation. This is not the Portola Valley I grew up in.

Embarrassed to be linked to this town that fails to acknowledge there is a world of pain outside its bubble of perfection. Wholly resent that with limited resources, we are forced now to 'give' to a school district that has no checks or balances (to date) on what it spends and its pervasive, fallible vision. Living in one of the most beautiful scenic areas, PVSD wants to block kids in with concrete, glass, high tech buildings and equipment. This obscene amount of money could do so much good elsewhere, improve education standards state wide, give to others less fortunate, instead it's continuing the fallacy that everything in this world has a price tag attached to it. Pity the parents that were conned again by the District and the Board, and hope the kids survive your grand intentions/beliefs with their sanity intact.