How much does it cost to keep a kid in the latest fashion trend compared to a uniform?
Mac, the other night on TV there was a guy, from NYC iirc, saying the same.
The main expense would be the 12-hour day that Mac proposed. You'd have teachers' going into overtime pay, for sure. Uniforms, which most likely would be cheaper, wouldn't nearly offset the cost of the O/T. And over that long of a day, the school board would probably mandate some kind of mandatory 2nd meal program.
Here in California, there are School districts' laying off personnel with the existing program. They can't even scare up enough money as it is.