No one designs schools to be schools. You have 600 bored students running around and the building is designed for 200 if they do nothing. The school district scrimps at every turn for those buildings so they pass inspection, but fall apart in a few years.

Places like Universal and Disney are designed to withstand crazy guests and have maintenance crews every night. It's a lot of work to keep things within the regulations the larger parks set for themselves. When people shift over to regular buildings they are always shocked at how low the standards are for buildings.

I bring this up because schools are designed to be replaced every 20 years. It falls apart on purpose and looks terrible within a year of being built. The designers themselves are special government approved agencies that have to go through a lot of extra work to get approval. That sounds great, but the reality is they design on a standardization system, not an actual design principal. This is why one of my highschools looked haunted, and another one was designed as a prison.

School lunches are the same. It's a lot of extra money for special regulations and mass use. There was a show where Jamie Oliver tried to build up an American school cafeteria and ended up making slop because of the regulations required.

Everything about school is the same way, standards, demands, high pay, slop. The teachers have benefits like insurance, but must teach that the wizard of Oz was a political metaphor. The better paying jobs require a master's or a PhD, and an ego the size of the building they work in. The money goes towards pet projects that make them look good, but deprive the students of any needed help.