...Ison English 100 10 September, 2012 Sports Funding for Schools Each and every year student athletes are forced to fundraise more money for their sports programs than years prior. Instead of spending time practicing or even getting school work done at home, student’s frantically search for ways to come up with the money to nurture struggling sports programs. Without sports kids are losing out on opportunities for higher and better education. Health problems and academic declines are at stake due to lack of exercise and motivation to play sports. Money needs to be given to sports programs to insure that student athletes stay motivated in school and stay active for health purposes. Athletes stay motivated in school by getting good grades, which enable them to play there sports. In the article, “Not Buying It” written by Steven Kurutz, he explains how people are setting up dumpster diving gatherings in order to find supplies that would help out the people around their house. They set up diving expedition outside of colleges after the college kids start throwing supplies away when school ends. Since the start of the recession school funding in the K-12 have been cut enormously. Thirty five states are getting less money then they did five years ago. California has cut 20% of there spending on kids since the start of the recession (Phil Oliff). With these cuts sports are obviously secondary to education, but in some instances, sports are being cut indefinitely. Families are struggling...
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...time to stop and ask where your money is going and why. The high cost of college sports is caused by college wanting to become famous and make more money and result is in higher student fees and cut back in academic budgets. Most universities...
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...been should schools start later. Visualize kids not being able to play sports they like. Imagine kids losing bond with their family so they don’t get to talk to them. Picture kids being left at home alone or skipping school because their parents have work in the morning. This could happen if schools started later, I believe No, school shouldn't start later because people won’t have time for sports or after school programs because it could get to late or dark so it would be hard to play sports in the dark, it could cut family dinner time which means they could lose bond with them, many kids may be left home because their parents have to go to work. Some people think if it starts late then they may perform poorly in school. First, kids may not have time for sports if school starts later because it could get too dark. Allow me to explain, if it gets too dark then...
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...monetary fee to participate in the school sport. Athletes need to be required to pay to play due to it being a privilege to be on the team. The reasons why pay to play will be effective are school budgets, it eliminates fundraising, and someones kid will more likely get more out of it. Schools are cutting wages because the budget is so tight. If the wages get cut teachers will leave because they want a higher salary to support their families. Also, when wages get cut, it gets harder to find teachers who will work for them low wages, and the adolescents in the classroom may also be affected by the lower wages because bad teacher, usually get the...
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...Art Funding When school budgets become strained, one of the first cuts is to the art programs, these include; art classes, theater, and music. Cuts to the above programs are used as sacrifices for extra-curricular activities, perhaps the most popular football. One social problem in cutting arts is that it deprives future generations of current art displays, which are often statements about the time period. It is also more sociable acceptable to participate in sports over a play. Another issue is that artists will not be able to be successful in their career choice. Even with the criticism, the arts play a critical role in a student’s career; therefore, it is malpractice to cut funding to arts in order to pay for extra-curricular activities. There are many benefits the arts can provide the common mass, whether it is entertainment, or stimulating thought and conversation. But the people or students involved in the performance or creating the art piece benefit the most. According to Mrs. Henry at the USA Today, the specific benefit one receives depends on the art discipline, “Drama helps with understanding social relationships. Music improves math achievement and proficiency, reading and cognitive development. Dance improves creative thinking, originality, and flexibility. Visual arts improve content and organization of writing.” According to Mrs. Henry, studying arts positively affect the student. Arts also can create a more pleasant atmosphere in schools and communities. Arts...
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...difficult anyone to gain steady unemployment and to even get a job these days a high school diploma is needed. People could get a job with having only their G.E.D. or not having any type of education at all. The economy’s downfall has had an effect on public education which is causing budget cuts within schools. This effect has educators, parents, and district board members worried about how this would affect not only the students, but the employees as well. Being that the country of America is already behind in the levels of education, people want to understand why the government takes away funds from the schools and the various education programs. Our education system has been suffering due to the trend of education cutbacks. How do schools expect our students to succeed to the highest level if schools cannot have a decent budget? The status of schools in America need to become better and students deserve the best education possible. In the state of South Carolina the Hampton County School District Two has been exploring options to generate revenue and cut expenditures for most of the year. A board meeting was held on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 to discuss how budget cuts have had an effect on the elementary, middle, and high schools within the district. Sixteen employees have already been laid off and this has parents very concerned about having enough employees especially teachers within the school district. What makes this situation worse is that the district does not know how...
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...Title IX law has hurt male athletics in college sports. The fact of the matter is that Title IX does not affect the state of men’s athletics and has not had a negative affect towards male athletes. Title IX is a law that provides equal opportunities for both men and women. One of the biggest misconceptions is that Title IX has had a negative impact on male sports in intercollegiate athletics. People who are against Title IX state that men’s programs get cut due to the fact that universities have to provide equal scholarships to both men and women. The Women’s Sports Foundation states that, “Title IX's purpose is to create the same opportunity and quality of treatment for female athletes as is afforded male athletes. The law does not require reductions in opportunities for male athletes” (www.womenssportsfoundation.org). In fact, Erik Brady of the USA Today writes that, “Men’s teams in other sports have been added over the years to more than offset the teams dropped. She says schools that drop men's sports often give reasons other than Title IX. And she points out that of the 948 schools that added one or more women's teams between 1992-2000, 72% did so without dropping any teams, men's or women's” (Brady). So, most colleges don’t blame Title IX or use it as a scapegoat. The truth Erik Brady writes is that, “Title IX doesn't put a gun to the head of a school and say, 'You must cut wrestling.' It doesn't say you must cut anything” (Brady). Another...
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...your school hasn’t won this tourney in twenty years and it's your turn to make history. There is one minute left in the game, it's tied 35-35. Your coach and team is in a dilemma, since this is a school sport, your coach promised everyone to play in every game. The coach put in the scrubs and the other team scores making it 37-35 and before you know it, the championship game and making history had just slipped through your fingertips.. Your school and town is devastated. It’s the scrubs fault for having to go in, and now everyone is mad. No kids should have to be in that situation. Tryouts would prevent that. If there were tryouts the coach could focus more on winning rather than making sure everyone gets in. People may argue that getting cut from the team can lowers one's self esteem. According to Jeffrey Rhoads : for those that are slightly younger, inexperienced or less skilled, smaller roles or waiting until next year will benefit them. Anyways, if the athlete wasn’t good at the sport, therefore the coach...
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...Many people believe that schools should not allow sports programs after school hours. According to numerous parents and teachers, schools should eliminate sports for a variety of important, crucial reasons. Therefore, schools should eliminate sports to help cut costs for equipment, give students more time to focus on grades, and allow kids to focus on work instead of games. As many sports coaches know, equipment can cost schools plenty of money. To find out how much schools actually spend, Amanda Ripley interviewed Superintendent Ernest Singleton of the Premont Independent School District who stated that, “By suspending sports, he realized, the district could save $150,000 in one year” (11). More specifically, “bleachers can cost half a million...
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...working up to this point; you are a college athlete. You are being paid to attend school and play your favorite sport for it. Your coach walks in with an upset look on his face. You think to yourself that it’s just going to be a difficult practice. Your coach actually tells you that you do not have practice today. You wont have practice ever again. Your entire life work gone, just like that. With your heart crushed, you cannot understand why the sport is just, canceled. You walk up to your coach and ask what the problem is. Your coach, as disappointed as you, tells you that the University board of athletics has decided to drop your “life” from the program to abide by the Title IX requirements and for not being a profitable program. This actually happened here at the University of Utah 50 years ago and it’s because there is a problem going on at Universities like The U and it is that men’s non-revenue sports, like wrestling, are being impacted negatively. Wresting is beginning to fade from colleges that are not in the Big Ten or the Ivy League, and Colleges like the University of Utah are participating in letting the sport diminish. In an article written by Coyte G. Cooper, “Involving the core product” “While there were 363 NCAA wrestling programs in 1981, the number of men’s wrestling programs offered by the NCAA had diminished to 234 in 2005.” Schools should stop making excuses for dropping the sport and making reasons on why to add. This is exactly what the University of Utah should...
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...In America, sport is not only a physical activity, which is used for competition or games but it is also one of the main missions in schools of the US. However, there is a post named "The Case Against High-School Sports" written by Amanda Ripley, which are on a website named The Atlantic. In this post, the main idea of the author is that sports are taking too many times and money in schools and that makes some negative impacts on students, schools, and society. In this post, she claims that she can see the benefits of high-school sports and these sports are becoming likely more important than other academics in schools. However, she has wondered about a trend that participating high-school sports too much could lead to some problems. Although high-school sports are beneficial, students...
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...This is where Heather Mercer comes in. An all state kicker in high school, tried to walk on the Duke football team. She made the roster as a practice squad player and never played a game. After making the game winning field go in the Duke spring game, she still did not see action the next year. During that year mercer states that the coach use offensive comments and was discriminating. Mercer eventually sued, arguing that the decision to cut her from the team was discriminatory because other less qualified players were still on the team. This is where the contact sport exception comes in. It is an argument that contact sports such as football should not be taken into account in regard to a school's compliance with title IX.(Spengler, pg 190)...
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...dancing provided students with an outlet and support they needed to continue through school with less acting out. Fine arts programs should be included in education because they benefit students academically, help improve behavior and attendance. Through the ballroom dancing, students learned about where each dance originated and other important information that was related. Students who were involved in the program began to show more interest in their school work and classes. Many students involved in art programs show interest in being at school because they look forward to the art class....
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...rid of discrimination on the basis of sex in any program that is federally funded. Before Title IX was passed women were very limited when it came to playing sports. They mostly played for physical fitness rather than competition. They were recreational and noncompetitive. In the early 1900s is when woman started to become more interested in playing sports and started forming athletic clubs; those clubs were informal of course. College sports for women before title IX was a little different. They would let women play certain sports but only against their fellow classmates, not outside of the college. In the late 1800s the first intercollegiate competition between women was scheduled and then canceled because one of the schools did not allow their female athletes to compete between colleges. Schools must go through a 3-prong test to use as evidence to the legislation of Title IX. The first part of the test is proportionality, this focused on the ratio in the school. They take the ratio of male to female participants in the athletic programs and compare them to the ratio to full time students; if the results are equal then the school meets the criteria for this prong. The second part of the test is the history of continuing progress. They look to see if the word “continuing” is important to the school. Most schools...
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... Outline Science, Technology and Human Values Topic: Pay-to-Play I. Introduction A. About Pay-to-Play 1. “Pay-to-Play” is a policy implemented by school districts to help cover the cost of extra-curricular activities, such as sports, clubs, cheer and dance, and even some honor programs. It dates back to the 1970’s although it became more popular in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. The fees range from $850 to play football at Oakfield High School in Massachusetts, $350 to participate in band at Fairfield High School in Michigan, to $30 per year total, no matter how many extra-curricular activities the student participates in, at Holton High School in Kansas. The fees vary by state, by school district, and there are some schools who don’t charge a fee at all. In 1984, California passed a law that no school district will charge fees for extra-curricular activities. Stealth versions of pay-to-play exist at many high schools around the country. Sometimes they are clothed as transportation fees, equipment fees or donations. Some schools blanket their fees by asking students to donate $150.00 to their booster club, such as Lakeside High School in Atlanta. Therefore, it is a considered a donation, and not a fee. (Brady) 2. There isn’t a current policy in the United States for pay-to-play in schools. It isn’t governed, nor is it required or uncommon for districts to charge some type of fee. This fee is not included with enrollment costs, and typically students...
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