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Americans obsessed with their sports. While the people of Allen Texas rally around their high school football team and sports teams they can sleep well at night knowing that only less than 1% of their graduates will ever go on to do anything lucrative with sports or athletics. Meanwhile a high school in India or Sweden is spending millions on a new science or dare I say it..........MATH LAB..........ughhhhhhhh math is like sooooooooo 1990s........
Americans obsessed with their sports. While the people of Allen Texas rally around their high school football team and sports teams they can sleep well at night knowing that only less than 1% of their graduates will ever go on to do anything lucrative with sports or athletics. Meanwhile a high school in India or Sweden is spending millions on a new science or dare I say it..........MATH LAB..........ughhhhhhhh math is like sooooooooo 1990s........
You should see the Westlake High school stadium, in the Eanes school district here in Texas, built before the Robinhood plan. A lot of private funds helped there.
"Dont mess with Texas? Texas is already a mess!"........LOL.......brilliant. And everyone likes to harp on California.
Again, dont see a problem with it.. the state is cutting the budget for the school, the local municipalities are picking up and expanding the funding..
I don't think the funds are "public" money but the locals are helping to fund it... I always like giving local people more power over their own lives...
I fail to see the problem with it..
1) They are paying for it
2) They voted on it
3) Football games tend ot be profitable to the districts
What exactly is your problem again? There is a school being built in California which cost something like $120M
The point is the money could be better spent on helping ALL STUDENTS....not just propping up high school athletics. It reflects upon American culture and why the entire US public education system is a complete and utter failure and why American kids are unable to compete in a global economy. It speaks volumes as to where our celebrity obsessed and sporstaholic culture begins. You ask American kids who was kicked off American Idol last week most could probably tell you. Now go ask them which branch of US government is known for being the most representative and why? Hell most adults probably can't name the Secretary of the Treasury or the Fed Chairman or what quantitative easing and hyperinflation mean......let alone who the current Defense Secretary is. Or better yet how many high schools kids understand the Food Modernization and Safety Act and the impact it has on this country and their right to choose healthy food. Now go ask any adult male between the ages of 20 and 40 a myriad of useless sports statistics.
The point is the money could be better spent on helping ALL STUDENTS....not just propping up high school athletics. It reflects upon American culture and why the entire US public education system is a complete and utter failure and why American kids are unable to compete in a global economy. It speaks volumes as to where our celebrity obsessed and sporstaholic culture begins. You ask American kids who was kicked off American Idol last week most could probably tell you. Now go ask them which branch of US government is known for being the most representative and why? Hell most adults probably can't name the Secretary of the Treasury or the Fed Chairman or what quantitative easing and hyperinflation mean......let alone who the current Defense Secretary is. Or better yet how many high schools kids understand the Food Modernization and Safety Act and the impact it has on this country and their right to choose healthy food. Now go ask any adult male between the ages of 20 and 40 a myriad of useless sports statistics.
Are you suggesting that you should have more control over THEIR money rather then letting them have control over THEIR own money? That's great... we all know what a great job the Federal Government does with other people's money... at least instead of having nobody unhappy, you rather they all be unhappy with the government continuing to waste their money on Big Business interest?? That's just great... at least we all know what the liberals would do with it, give all the teachers a raise and fund more of their unions so they can get more votes...
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