According
to the Los Angeles Times, a Texas high school has a football stadium with a
seating capacity of 18,000. There’s also
a video screen because you can never get too much of a 16-year old
halfback. Oh, and this all cost $60
million. Another Texas high school is
building a football facility for $62.5 million, and another’s being planned
that will cost in the neighborhood of $70 million.
These
are all pretty well-to-do districts, so you can’t make the argument school
officials are robbing the education budget for sports. What it comes down to is a matter of
priorities and messages. How many of
these players are bothering with their school work? How many of their parents care? How many district taxpayers complain about
everything but the cost of a stadium?
Friday
Night Lights, indeed.
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