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This is what education should be all about… Forget the “entitled” athletes. Education tax dollars should not go for funding the select few but for empowering the many deserving students who just want to better themselves. If only this trend would catch on in Texas public schools !! And, by the way, why isn’t anyone asking why all that revenue from the Texas Lottery program isn’t going into education —- which is what we were promised when the politicians were trying to sell us on the idea of a state lottery.
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This is BRILLIANT. I’d eliminate ALL football fields, and basketball courts. Teaching youngsters to play a game for a living is deplorable. Teaching them how to grow food is absolutely essential. BRILLIANT.
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what a beautiful sight, all those food plants in front of the goal post
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Finally someone puts a football field to good use for the community at large. Our colleges and universities have sold their souls to athletics and football in particular. It is time to review our priorities and put them in order. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Swaziland I worked and taught next to a guy who had his masters in mathematics from a British university. As a student he had run track and later as a graduate student he coached track. There were no coaches per say as we have professionalized them. The runners, in this case, coached the up and coming younger runners. Here we have the shameless examples everywhere of football coaches (most often P.E. majors) earning upwards of more than 20x what the president of the university earns. Schools K-12 and colleges are, or should be, a societies place of learning. They should not be farm teams for professional sports. If so, let the professional teams and owners cover the costs. In many sports we watch the schools cover the costs and train the individuals. The very fortunate ones will then leave and earn millions of dollars playing a kids game with a ball and or stick. What madness.
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