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so true …even in slovenia
I just knew you were slovenly.
NOT TRUE!!!!
I’d LOVE to work in a district that ponied up for break room coffee. Every district I worked in made us teachers bring in our own or form a coffee co-op.
Err, my school’s budget went to build a $2m band hall, :O
anyways;
FIRSTED
“I firsted a girl, and she liked it…”
I fisted a girl. She… wanted more?
Great! Fist her again, elbow deep this time…
Perverts.
and if they actually do anything to help students or something they promised, they will do it after you graduate.
Or within the last month of class, making it an espicially devious tease.
Pretty much. Every time I graduated from a school they got new AC units.
OR something utterly useless.
Like Big Brother-style TVs with security cameras.
I wish I was kidding :/
espescially during senior year -.-
Actually, your school’s biggest expenditure will be on wages.
That’s right, salaries and facilities & maintainance (which the new gym falls under, btw). Things like gym floors are big ticket items, but have to be replaced periodically. The disgruntled youth thinks it’s a waste of money, because it’s not spent on something they’re interested in.
Sports may be a big expenditure, but they are also more than likely one of the larger sources of income as well.
I would love to see the ‘things they promise’ list to really get a feel for the misplaced angst though.
Laurel, take your logically thought out and well intended comments to another site with more redeeming content, like Reddit.
Shut up Laurel! You sound like one of those old farts on the edumacation board.
This graph was obviously made by someone who hates P.E.
You think there is a fat kid on the internet or something?
Actually, I’m pretty sure this graph was made by a teacher who doesn’t like the fact that they would rather spend money on resurfacing the gym floors than actually buying things that would HELP students :p
I’m sure you’re right. Like supplies for all the fun and exciting hands-on projects we’d rather be doing, or textbooks that aren’t from before the teacher was born. But actually sports would be much larger at my school. As for it being a money-maker….the money only goes to more sports, nothing else.
When I was in 5th grade, my school spent the money that was supposed to go to fixing the playground on a staff rest lounge. There was broken glass on the slides, and they bought new couches for the teachers! WTF!
I wish my school spent that much on coffee. I have to buy my own! That would by a nice Mossimo automatic coffee maker and a huge supply of coffee and flavored creamers…ah, dare to dream.
I teach, BTW.
Tassimo. That was bad. This shopping is messing with my mind. Too many clothing buys.
Yeah, but if broken down into just two categories… helping kids and staff the GREEN would be much larger. Because the Gym Floor and Sports are a subset of “Helping Kids”. Especially if it is a Gym Floor or a McDonald’s lifestyle.
Which means that this can’t be put into a pie graph.
My first thought as well. And they didn’t promise helping kids and doing sport?
But whatever, the graph is OK.
nobody became CEO of a fortune 500 company cause they could get field goals at basketball or whatever. show some love for the smart kids!
I see this all the time at my school. My audio production class has computers you can barely do anything on, and all the people in the admin office have nice fast PCs with wide, flat monitors. And also, when building the new high school, they had all the coaches and sports people hired before they even looked for teachers.
My school did something like that, but instead of the new computers going only to the office they went to the office and the Engineering lab. It was good for my engineering class and the AutoCAD classes but we still have terrible computers throughout the rest of the computer labs.
And this is wrong because…?
Because sports gets a large chunk, but the performing arts do not. They should be equal.
Not to mention academics as well.
My school stopped doing morning announcements and replaced it with several expensive 40″ plasma TVs placed around the school in the hallways so you can 1) only look at them during your hectic passing periods and 2) have to wait through perpetual ads before you get to the segmented announcements (one announcement per screenshot which lasts 10-20 seconds). Not even exaggerating here.
Spending school money on teaching? What a crazy idea. Everyone knows nothing else matters but the sports teams winning!
i second williamswitch’s opinion. SPORTS FTW!!!!!
Ooooh, you blew out your knee, Jimmy?
Oh, sorry. Looks like your athletic career is over.
Well, at least you have your academic skills to…
what’s that?
you majored in Registration?
Oooh, well I guess it’s back to your mom’s house then, Jimmy!
Have fun back in Kansas, sport!
damn straight. science olympiad rulez (i might get kicked off the team for that)
The sports chunk should be about twice that size. When I was in high school it seemed like all they cared about was getting the sports teams new jerseys and equipment.
wow, anyone talking about cca here?? cuz thats exactly how the budget is broken down!
i had a gym teacher that cried and freaked if you walked across that floor with hard soled shoes or heels. he was like a mother hippo protecting her baby…stilettos ftw…
Did you go to my high school by any chance? We had to cut important people and good teachers at the end of the year, but boy oh boy Section V sports were a hoot!
This is freaky. That is almost an exact copy of my high school’s budget.
I just have to replace ”hardboard floor” with “climbing wall and luxurious furniture”. The education level is horrible but at least we,ve got to have the most comfy seats in the county.
Your breakroom has coffee? Amazing. We have to bring/buy our own coffee. =/
I live at a residential school. Most of the money we get goes back to the government apparently, because everything is taking a hit: building maintenance, staff wages, food, academics, information technology . . . the list goes on and on. A graph: all expenses crammed into a small wedge.
my school couldnt afford adequate heat or above-prison-quality food, but they bought a traffic light for the cafeteria that was supposed to tell when we were too loud.
Couldn’t agree more!
basically my school is all sports, they wouldn’t give a hoot about school.
They even cut class time to make a rally to tell you about the week’s football game or dance. 10-20 minutes each class.
my school just got rid of our art program to allow the former main art room to be turned into a weight lifting room and the smaller one into a Varsity locker room. WTF mate!
Hey, those steroids ain’t gonna shoot themselves up, eh?
Privatized schools, the bane of equal education for everyone.
Wow that is exactly what my school did last year(instead of fixing the major roof leaks in the cafeteria, it leaked even when it wasn’t raining!)
Apparently your teachers all work for free.
(also: repairing broken stuff, art projects, stationery, shop and art class stuff, taxes (employers always have to pay taxes, even if they’re the government), bureacracy stuff, finally upgrading school computers to windows XP (if that), school cafeteria, janitors, electrical bills, water, gas, chemicals for chemistry, physics stuff, ancient TV sets with tape recorders for school television, locks on cupboards to prevent the remote for those things from being stolen, etc. etc.)
And in my school, but not in every one, special funds for “special” kids, super high tech plasma TV screens (9 of them) for showing Powerpoint slideshows containing useless information, a person to make such TVs incapable of being manipulated by students, 40 cm high blocks of concrete outside to sit on and a massive amount of bicycle stands.
Oh, man… my hometown is definitely one of the worst schools to do that. it used to get flooded out every year, and as soon as they got enough money… they refloored the gym (completely unnecessary) and added a youth football league to the school district.
Oh. My. Gosh. So true! And then the kids can’t even walk on the floor with regular shoes, everyone has to buy fifty dollar shoes for pe! Screwed up.
*Sigh* true. My school just got rid of one of the art classes so they could expand the weight room.
The school I transferred out of fired half their janitorial staff, got rid of band, and raised tuition so they could build a new wing.
holy smokes is this my old high school, like honestly this is the last thing i remember them buying when i went 2 school there and i still had a concret long jump run up
If you replaced the last 4 categories with “FOOTBALL,” that would be my school.
My old high school did something similar back in my freshman year. Instead of using the money they raised to buy some new books to replace our old ones that were probably as old as the school itself, They bought over a hundred new tables to replace the ones we had before (which were perfectly fine). The tables they got were not only smaller, but they didn’t even use all of them, about half were just sitting in the halls.
Hey thats the same as my school is like.