At my
high school,
Athletics is King. Our teams suck, but they receive more money than any
academic groups could imagine.
We have a
high academic caliber at my
high school. The blue-ribbon school in Hampton Township of Pennsylvania seems to be distributing funds to the wrong places. The
athletics leaves a lot to be desired. We are
children of eggheads. However,
athletic teams are favored over
academic teams.
The
football team gets nice comfortable tour buses, and has not been above .500 since forever. The
wrestling team is now the proud owner of a new underground
wrestling room costing the district
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Sports teams that request money receive the
funding without even a
discussion at the
school board meeting.
The
award-winning marching band gets
too few school buses. A
physics team had to pay for the
buses to take them to a
competition, a competition in which they ranked in the
top 50 in the
country. A
robotics team has trouble asking for $3,500 for a trip to a
national robotics competition in
Seattle. The
physics department uses outdated equipment. The
music department is crowded in rooms that are too small.
Now, I am in both
athletics and
academics at my school. However, it boggles my mind why the
school board funds
terrible sports teams and argues over pennies for
nationally ranked academic teams.