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A quick google search shows 37,000 high schools in the US. Let's say a about a quarter of them have shot clocks now. That leaves about 28,000 of them. At $7500 per gym (which I believe was the estimate above) that's $210 million to have shot clocks at every school. So for a handful of games that have a stalling "travesty"*--and they make the news because they are rare--there should be over $200 million spent out of school budgets. (About 2/3 of that is public schools.)
In my experience, I kinda like the shot clock. In high quality high school play, it doesn't have a huge impact on the game, except in the final couple of minutes when it does reduce (not eliminate) deliberate fouling.
And, at the risk of being overly snarky, if a ref needs a shot clock to make his life easier, perhaps the ref should find something else to do with his time.
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* I think the travesty concept is overblown balderdash. If you don't like the other team stalling, go get the freaking ball from them.
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