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2juk wrote:

and sports might be cut

Good.

jord wrote:

Doctor Strangelove wrote:

2juk wrote:

and sports might be cut

Good.

You in the two thirds of obese americans then?

I just don't think taxpayer money should go to subsidizing having kids play with balls.

If they want to pay for the teams with donations then fine by me, but we shouldn't be paying for them to play.

Last edited by Doctor Strangelove (2010-03-24 08:05:06)

Except...don't the schools actually make money from sporting events?

on topic: Seems like a few students were doing this for the teachers..the rest saw it as a reason to be rowdy.

2juk wrote:

My School had a 'sit-in' I guess you could call it last Friday the 19th.  Our school budget is forcing Shelton to fire up to 100+ teachers and sports might be cut next year, which would mean no creditation.  I'm a senior so I went to a nearby deli to eat while the school was doing the sit-in.  Everyone went to the lobby and eventually outside.

This was to show the Mayor he is in the wrong by firing half of our teachers.

The school was trying to get students inside the building by threating everyone who is outside will get cuts for the classes their supposed to be in.  Then when everyone eventually came inside after about an hour the school started to become chaos. Everyone was running was running around screaming shit and throwing shit.  It was pretty cool to see the school completely out of control of teachers. The police eventually came to arrest people who wouldn't corraperate.

WTNH has the story

The other teachers could've taken a pay cut to save their colleagues jobs. They didn't. Blame the teachers union for grabbing more money from the district than was really available.

JohnG@lt wrote:

Doctor Strangelove wrote:

jord wrote:

You in the two thirds of obese americans then?

I just don't think taxpayer money should go to subsidizing having kids play with balls.

If they want to pay for the teams with donations then fine by me, but we shouldn't be paying for them to play.

I bet you weren't invited to many (any) parties in high school. You seem like you're lots of fun.

Under that logic, money shouldnt go to chess club or plays, or any other extra curricular activity.  Sports are a lot more important than learning to play chess or act in a play imo.

Last edited by Winston_Churchill (2010-03-24 08:24:18)

FatherTed wrote:

does this sports money go to cheerleading too?

Fucking the kids over is never a good thing. There are plenty of other government projects to cut from.

JohnG@lt wrote:

Winston_Churchill wrote:

Under that logic, money shouldn't go to chess club or plays, or any other extra curricular activity.  Sports are a lot more important than learning to play chess or act in a play imo.

Sports is pretty much the only reason I went to class in high school

Where you good at sports and not very good at your education?

I'm just asking, cause the sport thing does bring alot of perks in the school system.

Education is also way more important then sports, because it's used later in life by more people then anything else.

P.S. I do however agree with you that teachers and everyone in government work right now needs to take a pay cut. Stop giving out inflation increases if you don't have, I'm more and more realizing that one of the biggest reason for inflation in this world is government jobs.

Last edited by cpt.fass1 (2010-03-24 09:08:40)

JohnG@lt wrote:

Doctor Strangelove wrote:

jord wrote:

You in the two thirds of obese americans then?

I just don't think taxpayer money should go to subsidizing having kids play with balls.

If they want to pay for the teams with donations then fine by me, but we shouldn't be paying for them to play.

I bet you weren't invited to many (any) parties in high school. You seem like you're lots of fun.

Sounds like the kind of parties you were invited to had a lot of charming and sophisticated individuals in attendance.

If you can't pay the teachers' salaries, then cut the noneducational programs before starting the core subjects layoffs.

why deny a student another avenue to a higher education by cutting out sports?

why deny a student another avenue to a higher education by cutting out advanced classes? Sadly the argument goes multiple ways.

Washington DC, if I'm not mistaken, has some of the highest spending per student of any school system in the US. Yet test scores are abysmal, graduation rates are abysmal, public schooling in general in DC is abysmal.

Why? Ask anyone educated on the matter and nine times out of ten they'll say it's the parents. The parents don't give a shit about their child's success. They don't go to parent-teacher conferences, they don't discipline their kids, and then when the teachers tell them that their kid's a troublemaker they get all angry and say they raise their kids well (hahha yeah fucking right).

If someone can figure out how to solve that problem, then I imagine we wouldn't have as many problems in regards to funding because people would realize that all the money pumped into the school system in the world isn't gonna make a lazy parent take charge.

eleven bravo wrote:

why deny a student another avenue to a higher education by cutting out sports?

Because if you can't pay teachers' salaries, then you're denying an entire school worth of students the proper foundation for higher education. Why sacrifice that so that a handful of students on sports teams might get scholarships?