What big government looks like - Education Department

People keep clamoring for more and more stuff from the government but they do not realize that growing the government has major unintended consequences.

Here is one from the Philadelphia, PA Inquirer:

In cash-strapped School District, a hidden treasure trove of books
The teacher had heard about the books.

Thousands and thousands of them, from two dozen city schools shuttered two years ago. Perfectly usable. All sitting boxed up and unused in the basement of the Philadelphia School District's headquarters.

Like so many city teachers, she uses fund-raising websites to get the books she needs for her students.

Like so many city teachers, she has students who can't bring home their torn-up textbooks because there aren't enough to go around.
 
If there were books, the teacher wanted some.

What she saw in the dusty basement of the School District building left her flabbergasted.

A city block of books. Some of them shrink-wrapped. Some of them dumped in boxes. Some stacked on the floor. Few labeled. Nothing organized. Kindergarten readers next to high school books. Expensive Storytown reading series, gathering dust. Science, algebra, literature textbooks. Literary kits and phonics sets. Books for English-language learners.

Classics like Jack London and Mark Twain. The Hardy Boys. Nancy Drew.

This is a travesty, she thought.

She had one simple question: "Why aren't these in the hands of Philadelphia children?"

Great question, Teach.

But she didn't know the half of it.

There are thousands more unused books - and other things city kids badly need, including pianos and other instruments - piled up in the hallways and classrooms of the shuttered Bok High School in South Philadelphia.

The books were dumped there two years ago when Bok and 23 other schools were closed. They've just been sitting there since.

If things are messy in the district basement, Bok is worse.

Fsck the bureaucrats - get a bunch of parents with trucks and vans and liberate the books and put them to use. Some pencil-dick administrator somewhere didn't have the precious 'authorization' to do anything and by God, they are going to do their job and sit on this treasure until told otherwise. I do not think that there is a cop anywhere who would arrest the parents and teachers when they liberate this trove.