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about the luck of some other sports opportunity that their kids do not have and other suburban schools do.
Hrawmbrr the football propnun that was tx>t supposed to cost the taxpayers a penny * How soon we torpet.
Now. wo betieve. the* football proBtnm is costing tin* taxpayers. what? $40,000 per Year? More*?
KtxXball is pn*at - as are* other sports. It pives the kids a well - rounded education and myriad other benefits that you dv> not have to hear about from us.
What wo find infuriating is that when the tax'd or cost fi»r sports proprams is uu«*stioned. wo pet comments suppestmp that opponents of the nipbt lights an*, in effect. “salutinp“ tla* sclaxds with tut olxxx'ta* pestun* tutd other eries descritunp opponeats of nipbt lights as not caritvp alxait kids tutd education.
Wo find tltat ntdo and insuhinp. Not having tt kid in the school systom. we* do not Wlow every school board issvto or attend nax'tinps. However, wo do care that tla* kids in this county have the* beet education possible lor this county. Wo would like to sex* a preater focus on acack'ttttcs (watch us now beinp lalx'kxl elitist (. Wo taitnit it - we an* natre pro taudenucs than pro sports ami if ora* hits to lx* slighted lor the* i*tlu*r. for us. academics will always win. This would lx* even truer if we had a kid in scltool If the pursuit of an excellent academic education equals elitism, as per the thmkmp of sona*. so lx* it.
Another consideration is la»w many kids an* actually involved * l*\»r tla* sake of arpuua*nt. U*t‘s say 100. That's $TAH>.000 so UX> kids can “ix*caskmally'* (tla* Athletic Assrx'iataxi's word* play Ixill at nipht. That's $A.IXX> tx*r Hold. But - what if its f>0 kids tiuit's $10,000 per child plus dtanpinp the character of Kappahan
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