What Can Dexter Schools Buy for $100,000?

With Patch organizing a holiday light contest that awards , we wanted to see what that money could buy. If you simply take a photo of the great holiday lights at your house and add it to this page, that $100,000 could soon be in local school children's hands. 

Just like kids heading off to the school store with a crisp $5 bill in their pockets, district officials in Dexter could be answering the question of what to do with that money. Instead of painstaking choices among rubber pencil grips, sweet erasable pens or Hannah Montana stickers, administrators will weigh among curriculum, facility or activity purchases for students.

For this exercise, I evaluated publicly available information to find out what teachers were asking for this year.

This is some ways a school could spend the Patch donation:

• Wild Swan Theater, early reading intervention program, $1,614.
• Music therapy programs, $2,000
• Ann Arbor symphony field trip, $300
• Classroom enrichment programs, guest speakers, $3,838.
• Field trips, books and Outdoor Survival class, $5,920.
• Fitness class, $480.
• World languages equipment at Mill Creek, $8,000.
• Civil War uniforms and world globes, $7,200.
• Choral music at the library, $2,000.
• Wordpress website and training, $2,360.
• 100 new band uniforms, $60,000

That's a grand total of $93,712! Do you have more suggestions? Let us know and be sure to enter your house in our holiday lights contest before its too late.