Originally Posted by
nogods
It should be split up. Larger governments, while offering some economy of size savings, tend to become nothing but big bureaucracies largely insulated from the people the governmental unit services. This is particularly true of school districts which should be one of the smallest forms of self-governance. Six superintendents who are accessible to the people in the smaller school district instead of one overpaid superintendent and 60 overpaid administrative assistants who are insulated from the people they serve is a much better arrangement. Combines for purchasing outside services and goods can always be entered into to save money.