Posted by 3Dee on May 1, 2019, 9:25 am, in reply to "Politics in sports"
Why are my education tax dollars going to sports any way....building their stadiums and courts and the such?
Have a rickety old gym to run around and in the nice months, make them run around outside.
All this stuff you're worried about will go away.
You think my idea is radical (and it is).
To me, high school sports is a tax funded farm system for the Sports Industry. The Sports industry is a multi-billion dollar entity. Granted, the school districts may get considerations from apparel companies and some benefit.... Really this industry is getting player development for free on the backs of tax payers and tuition payers of private schools.
I say let the schools get OUT of the sports industry and let the Sports industry pay for its own farm system.
Go back to intramurals and recreation at the school level....and if Kaitlyn and Sebastian want to be superstars...it will not be the headache of the school district.
These coaching salaries are insane as well. In all fairness, the coaches usually do other jobs and their coaching part of the salary is only a portion of what they do. Still, taxpayers have to cough up that extra portion...to pay the coach... and somehow we have this IHSA governing body out there.
It's just one of the ways that education dollars are WASTED....and education dollars are being spent on pursuits other than education.
That's only phase 1 of Deeistic education reform that would work.