I spent five years as Buildings and Grounds Supervisor for a local public school district. I finally left in disgust. It didn't take me long to realize that the school district was not run by the school board and administration, it was run by the local sports booster club.
Classroom teachers who were turned down on academic projects because "funds weren't available" complained that all they had to do was find a way to tie the project to a sports program and the money would automatically be there.
The VocAg teacher wanted to take a class on a field trip to Husker Harvest Days (an event in Nebraska the equivalent of a second state fair) and was told transportation would not be available. At the next school board meeting, a board member whose son would have gone on the trip had it occurred asked, "When was the last time we missed an athletic event because transportation wasn't available?"
I said, "Good shot, Jim".
The ironic thing was, the district wasn't even a sports powerhouse. I recall the football team went 0-9 one year. It was like the district was so fixated on improving their sports image, they forgot about academics.
Even in college at the University of Nebraska, it used to infuriate me to see students work as hard as any athlete preparing themselves for academic and performing competitions, and then when you opened a newspaper all you got was 12 pages of sports.
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