I am arguing something theoretical that will never happen, because people would be in your camp on this issue....
I could make a great case for music education... but comparing the points is not even the issue.
It's just amazing what is so sacrosanct, things that YOU LIBERALS think our taxes should support, and other things you think are not worthy of tax support.
It's okay that I'm the only one who sees it a waste for only five or six home games a year...
But getting back to the point --
Sports will take care of itself. The only reason I knew I wouldn't be playing soccer for Coach B. (who has my utmost respect) - is because I had played for a number of years on the field behind Prather...for whatever coach took the misfits...and had a lot of fun. We paid that $25 a year registration fee and some good man in town paid for the uniforms and the such.
If club sports can sustain a kid up to his twelfth birthday, why can't it continue up to his (or dare I say HER) 18th birthday? College Scouts will figure out where the games are being played. (So I'm not making friends at the IHSA this week.)
That brings me to another point.....why college is so unaffordable, that kids get caught up in this web of AP Classes and Sports scholarships.
What is not mentioned is the toll it takes on mental health as well.
You can compare sports to anything I suppose, and yet none of it requires quite the same infrastructure. Music can fit into a pit beneath a stage or in the balcony of the church or a corner of a bar....and that skill VERY MUCH carries over into adulthood. There are plenty of modest and sizeable five and six figure incomes in the field of music....not just the elite on the big stage. Music seems like nothing, until you have to face the reality of hiring a musician..
Seeing the forest beyond the trees..... the United States is lagging in Education, in spite of having the highest global per pupil spending. That money is not being spent effectively.
So - this is only one small corner of a large field of issues.
I mean there are a number of districts ineffectively drawn - and a whole host of other issues that this issue only begins to scratch the surface.