Man, one thought that occurred to me a long time ago was that one way to cut the cost of education but to avoid actually defunding it was to make sports programs, all sports programs, self supporting. Let's face it, right now parents get together to hold bake sales and such to buy playground equipment and do capital improvements to schools, think how motivated they'd be if those things were funded and they had to hold bake sales and seek business sponsorships for the football team, or girls basketball.
Here's an article that backs up my idea.
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They've tried that when my daughter was in high school. They spent all their time running for-profit events and poor kids still couldn't join the team because they had to buy all their equipment.
Having said that, school buses would be a bigger priority for instance.
Wait! They tried that too. Now kids have to get to school by hook or by crook. Still, not as bad as Oakland schools where teachers and kids have to bring their own toilet paper.
Hope you're referring to high school and not college, or the NCAA may put a hit on you.
High school, although many CA colleges are shutting down entire sports programs because of budget cuts.
In fact, some of the kids on sports scholarships just found out last week that their programs will be canceled effective January 1, when kids return to class. It stranded a lot of them with no money and no school to attend at the last minute.
I say cut them all off, especially college teams. Not one program appears to be self-supporting. Considering the fuss conservatives raise about Amtrak, which at least serves a purpose, you'd think they'd be all up in arms about sports.
The defunding of American education ought to be criminal.
Or maybe I ought to say mis-funding, since spending per capita in the U.S. is among the highest in the world (when I read that, my first thought was, "but how much of that is spent on administration, outsourced contracting and 'consultation' services, and how much of it actually gets to the classroom?")
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