From: "Chris Reeves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List <[email protected]>
To: "'The Hardware List'" <[email protected]>
Subject: [H] RE: (OT) ID, Changed to schools
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:15:34 -0600
I'm sorry, but I could solve 100% the HS funding issue and improve science,
math, and all other educational standards in most states by doing what
other
countries do. Make sports, etc. an afterschool activity and leave my tax
dollars out of it. Kids play babe ruth league in the summer without
schools
backing it, as much as I love watching HS Football, I don't understand why
36% of every education dollar locally goes to it, or almost 42% statewide.
What a rip-off. How many of those kids will use "football" as their
primary
career? I attended an 8-man game recently, in which the school was on
their
way to the playoffs, and I'm sure it was great for the kids, who loved the
activity, etc. etc. etc. But then again, I'm sure the cost of it was good
for their school, which has at it's highest math class Alegebra I and
teaches Spanish I as their only language course, after having dropped all
speech/etc. Those kids are getting real prepared to go into the real world
*rolls eyes*
That is blasphemous talk in the midwest. For many small towns, all they have
to look forward to is the local HS football games. It's more than just for
the kids, it's for the entire small-town populace. These people need HS
football more than the kids do. Sad.
