• Teen suspended for tweet critical of high school sports
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[QUOTE=WeekendWarrior;40575349]Anybody actually read the source?[/QUOTE] So voicing an opinion against the norm is "incitement" and worthy of suspension. That's fucking worse. School Sports in the US are [I]very[/I] important for some reason. Where I live, even the parents shittalk each other. One time a huge fight even broke out and the next few games where monitored by the State Police. It's kind of ridiculous.
Hah, the only "sports" team my school has is a FIRST robotics team. We're not much like a football team though.
BIG TEACHER IS WATCHING. OBEY.
This is bullshit and the exact reason I don't make posts on any media with my name on it often. You never know what schools will blow up over.
Take the stupidity of Kansas, the stupidity of schools, the stupidity surrounding sports, and the stupidity with which people respond to the internet, mix them together, and you get this story.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;40575392]It really is absurd. I feel bad for my sister's theater group in high school. They receive literally $0 in funding and have to pay for the rights to their plays and the materials to build it entirely out of pocket and/or fundraising, with the ticket sales barely being enough to buy the rights to the next play. Meanwhile, the football team gets funding for just about anything they want. Why? Because sports.[/QUOTE] No, do you want to know the football team gets money? Because they make it.
[QUOTE=Nipples;40575798]No, do you want to know the football team gets money? Because they make it.[/QUOTE] Because it's not like you could, maybe, put on a theatre show, and have people pay to attend? I was Stage Manager back in my secondary school, it was some of the best times I've had at school.
[QUOTE=SnakeHead;40575344]This just highlights the ridiculous amount of importance most schools put on sports. IMO sports should have no place in schools other than to serve as exercise.[/QUOTE] What if they drag in huge sums of money for the entire district which is evenly distributed through every department?
High school sports like football and basketball are just nationalism factories. It's literally offensive to the school's pride to say something like that about a sports team. Murka.
[QUOTE=Nipples;40575798]No, do you want to know the football team gets money? Because they make it.[/QUOTE] The high school pulls in ~$20,000 per play, and they're entirely self-sufficient. I'm not saying that the football team doesn't deserve funding, I just don't like how so many other departments and "clubs" get the shaft because of it.
The high school I went to was supposedly a school which supported the arts, yet they pumped all their budget in to the sport teams and P.E. classes, leaving the art classes with next to no funding. I hear it's worse in the States. [sp]the American Football and Rugby teams sucked[/sp]
This infuriates me. My school, while not this bad, puts far too much of a focus on our dumb sports. Many classes have crappy textbooks that are falling apart and we all have to put up with decade-old computers running Windows XP. Meanwhile, they bought a whole new floor for our gym last year. Also, the GPA required to be eligible for sports is laughably low. You can be so busy with sports that you don't do ANY homework, but you are still nearly guaranteed to always be able to play. I hate school sports, in case that rant didn't clue you in.
[QUOTE=DaWhatTheFox;40575328]The fuck is going on with schools lately?[/QUOTE] It's mostly just sensationalism making a big deal about things that are already quite common.
Remember when suspensions were only supposed to be given out when students posed a serious physical threat or disruption to other students? Yeahhh
YOUR SPORTS TEAMS SUCK, YOUR WHOLE SCHOOL SUCKS. Suspend me now bitches.
I despised everyone at my school for loving football so much, that's literally all they cared about, even the teachers. So, every game I went to I went to the opposing side and cheered for them. I don't hate school sports, but I do hate people who think one sport is better than the other when it's just a matter of opinion and preference. Being surrounded by a bunch of rednecks that thought football was the best sport in the world was quite infuriating at times.
I honestly I loved playing football in High School but I am very thankful our school wasn't intense about it. We didn't really have jocks, we took anyone in and if they could just hang in there then they were on the team. We also didn't get anymore funding than most programs so we had to raise money ourselves to buy equipment. All the athletic programs here had to operate like that, and we did just fine. However I know there are schools that go to quite frankly horrifying methods to ensure that sports is more important than education. Cheating, drug use, and other things get swept under the rug to let star players off the hook. These people should remember that the reason why they are at school is to learn and athletics is available to have fun and to learn dedication. These people make others ashamed to be associated with high school sports.
I enjoy being pulled out of classes for an hour and having the schedule get fucked for the whole day so I can be forced to go to an assembly promoting the game of a sports team I couldn't possibly give less of a fuck about. What? That time you took out of my Computer Science class so you could cram this assembly in so the student government can go [I]rah rah rah[/I] and play unfunny videos? Nah, don't want that. Don't want that at all.
[QUOTE=TH89;40576241]Remember when suspensions were only supposed to be given out when students posed a serious physical threat or disruption to other students? Yeahhh[/QUOTE] That's the damnedest thing though. There are plenty of cases where straight up assault won't get you suspended and yet here we are seeing kids suspended for badmouthing fucking sports.
[QUOTE=Boxbot219;40576738]That's the damnedest thing though. There are plenty of cases where straight up assault won't get you suspended and yet here we are seeing kids suspended for badmouthing fucking sports.[/QUOTE] At my old school, they were more worried about dress code violations than teaching. Its pretty goddamned irritating when a teacher uses that as an excuse to go apeshit on the class. Oh and if you questioned it you got in school suspension. I sometimes wondered if they had a quota system for dress code violations. [editline]8th May 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Rellow;40576644]I enjoy being pulled out of classes for an hour and having the schedule get fucked for the whole day so I can be forced to go to an assembly promoting the game of a sports team I couldn't possibly give less of a fuck about. What? That time you took out of my Computer Science class so you could cram this assembly in so the student government can go [I]rah rah rah[/I] and play unfunny videos? Nah, don't want that. Don't want that at all.[/QUOTE] Again I'm glad my school made that shit optional and after school was over. What bloody point does it serve to drag people into these things? If they want to support the team, they will do it at the games. To be honest I hated being in prep rallies. I would use the time before the games to study because there was no bullshit allowed in the locker room.
[QUOTE=axelord157;40575745]BIG TEACHER IS WATCHING. OBEY.[/QUOTE] we have always been at war with knowledge, not our great ally, freedom. we have always been at war with freedom, not our great ally, knowledge.
imagine having an opinion
[QUOTE=avaz;40576339]I despised everyone at my school for loving football so much, that's literally all they cared about, even the teachers. So, every game I went to I went to the opposing side and cheered for them. I don't hate school sports, but I do hate people who think one sport is better than the other when it's just a matter of opinion and preference. Being surrounded by a bunch of rednecks that thought football was the best sport in the world was quite infuriating at times.[/QUOTE] Now that's what I call edgy!
[QUOTE=Rellow;40576644]I enjoy being pulled out of classes for an hour and having the schedule get fucked for the whole day so I can be forced to go to an assembly promoting the game of a sports team I couldn't possibly give less of a fuck about.[/QUOTE] Ahh, I remember those school assemblies. I was lucky because the assemblies were at the end of the day and nobody ever watched the exits of the school or took attendance after them. Though it did piss me off by taking away class time for some stupid shit.
[QUOTE=zombojoe;40575551]sports teams net schools money[/QUOTE] Bullshit [url]http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-28/news/ct-met-football-money-main-20111028_1_high-school-football-football-field-coaching[/url] [url]http://m.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2009-07-13/story/high_school_football_makes_money_but_not_enough[/url] Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
[QUOTE=Appellation;40577177]Bullshit [url]http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-28/news/ct-met-football-money-main-20111028_1_high-school-football-football-field-coaching[/url] [url]http://m.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2009-07-13/story/high_school_football_makes_money_but_not_enough[/url] Pull the other one, it's got bells on.[/QUOTE] These anecdotes aren't really worth anything. I actually go to a Chicago area school and our team makes huge revenue, but that's because we're a good team and we have crowds ~40,000 for every game.
I'm sure they say that, the schools in the article say the same, but the simple fact is that they don't factor in all of the costs.
[QUOTE=nickohlus;40575968]High school sports like football and basketball are just nationalism factories. It's literally offensive to the school's pride to say something like that about a sports team. Murka.[/QUOTE] I'm not sure if you know what nationalism means, but you're pretty much right, people are far too proud of their pointless sports.
[QUOTE=Appellation;40577220]I'm sure they say that, the schools in the article say the same, but the simple fact is that they don't factor in all of the costs.[/QUOTE] The costs are negligible for our team because we personally fund raise tens of thousands in door to door coupon sales each year. We also have endorsements from Nike and they paid for all of our new jerseys and girdles. Ridell also gave us free helmets this year.
[QUOTE]"Using the most conservative cost estimates and the most liberal revenue estimates, football might cover half of its cost — maybe," said Hugh Franks, a former economics teacher in West Texas [B]who published one of the only financial analyses of high school football. [/B]"It doesn't even come close." That's because tickets cost just a few dollars, if anything. Stadiums have no luxury boxes, let alone beer sales. And for now, there is no television revenue of any consequence. (Wheaton Warrenville South and Glenbard West high schools made only $1,000 apiece for playing on ESPN earlier this year, their athletic directors said.) The expenses, meanwhile, are considerable. Coaching stipends can approach six figures for a large staff. Rosters often carry more than 100 boys, each of whom needs a helmet that costs around $250, shoulder pads that run about $150 and a uniform that goes for roughly $150. And many schools are replacing their grass fields with synthetic turf, an installation that can cost well over $1 million. [/QUOTE] First off, you didn't read the articles before assuming they were purely anecdotal. Secondly, you accuse me of arguing from anecdote while your only source is the state of one high school?
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