My School = STUPID

[Dan Richardson]

Originally posted by DirtyBird213

I just wanted to point out something else, my husband is the teacher adviser for our team (I donate my time as an adviser) he also coaches Football and Baseball, some of you have said how much your schools give to your sports teams. It's not the same here in Keene NH! Our sports teams have boosters clubs that are responsible for raising the money those teams need. The school pays the coaches salaries. They also pay a salary for my husband for FIRST. The unfortunate thing is we are all in public schools, and it's the public who vote on our school budgets, which struggle to pass as it is. I think we need to realize that the schools just don't have any money to give. This is why fund-raising in so important. We have all proved we can excel in the FIRST program with no money!

Aye.. my school just finishe buildling an 7 million dollar sports complex just so they could be the #1 ranked higschool sports complex in the nation... Now as I am a football player ( and used to play basketball and baseball ) I think its cool and all.. but I'd love to have more than like 500 dollars of support from our school

Also our baseball coaches gets paid about 2x as much as the nearest teacher to his salary

At my school funding is whacked, Infact, Even the money we did raise ( which turned out to be like 7000 total ) can be at any time witheld from us because it is in the school account. They have the " right " to freeze it.. even if we have to pay a regional registration fee... That pisses me right off, first they say " You can't ask people to sponsor you " then they reserve to right to keep our money that we earned outright

Things will be different for this next year, I refuse to get my senior year screwed by politics in money. But the good thing is because we didn't end up making the trip to nationals, we have a lot of money left over for next year. So we will be in a good situation to start.