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Re:US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuin... by Spivak on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @10:54AM (#45198689)
Because people who talk about "the football team always is fully funded" are from schools that are turning a profit. We played teams from schools that weren't. They had ancient gear and a field. The public HS across the street from us didn't even have a field, they used ours.
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Re:US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuin... by noitpmeder on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:05AM (#45198862)
The implication of the original posters mention of his district's "fully funded" team was definitely not that it was turning a profit... but that the school is instead still spending on it while cutting services like the library.

Why would he complain, in this context, about a football program that is generating income for the district?

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Re:US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuin... by Spivak on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @03:33PM (#45202516)
Yes, that's exactly the implication I'm challenging. The amount of times I've heard the "they're cutting thing-i-think-is-important but keeping the football program" but who don't know that it's because the football program is self-sustaining is so frustrating. They're not choosing football over music or art or whatever. For sports which aren't local cash-cows the parents are having to buy the new equipment and uniforms. Sadly, no one stepped up for the music program like that.
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