Posted by Goose on June 05, 2013 at 18:59:23 from (74.84.65.78):
In Reply to: Re: Sports posted by JDNewbie on June 05, 2013 at 17:32:05:
I was once Buildings and Grounds Supervisor for a good sized public school. After I took the job, I soon learned the school district wasn't run by the School Board and Administration, it was run by the local sports booster club. What the booster club wanted to happen, was what happened.
Teachers who had been turned down on a request for an academic project because "funds weren't available" complained bitterly that if they could find a way to tie the project in with a sports program, the money would automatically be there.
The Voc Ag teacher turned in a request to take a group of students to the Husker Harvest Days (an annual agricultural event that can compete with the State Fair). He was turned down because "transportation would not be available".
At the next school board meeting, which I was required to attend, a board member whose son would have gone on the trip, had it came about, asked, "When was the last time we missed a sports event because transportation was not available?"
I said, "Good shot, Jim".
The whole thing has gotten out of hand. When I was in college, it infuriated me to see students work just as hard as any athlete to prepare themselves for academic and performing competitions, and then when you pick up a newspaper all you have is 12 pages of sports, and not a word about academics.
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