No more sports, where next...

• Starter

  As Chancellor of track/cc at the local high school booster club, I have concerns. Our school looks to terminate sports. I know those kids who feel they must depend upon sports for the next step in their life will transfer to neighbboring schools. The rest, I don't know. As a booster club, does anyone have any ideas where we might send our kids. I thought maybe non-scolastic league. Any help?
• nworunner

  Starter wrote: As Chancellor of track/cc at the local high school booster club, I have concerns. Our school looks to terminate sports. I know those kids who feel they must depend upon sports for the next step in their life will transfer to neighbboring schools. The rest, I don't know. As a booster club, does anyone have any ideas where we might send our kids. I thought maybe non-scolastic league. Any help?

  You have it bad?
  
  http://toledoblade.com/article/20100305/NEWS16/303059998
• gccsxc

  nworunner wrote:

  Starter wrote: As Chancellor of track/cc at the local high school booster club, I have concerns. Our school looks to terminate sports. I know those kids who feel they must depend upon sports for the next step in their life will transfer to neighbboring schools. The rest, I don't know. As a booster club, does anyone have any ideas where we might send our kids. I thought maybe non-scolastic league. Any help?

  You have it bad?
  
  http://toledoblade.com/article/20100305/NEWS16/303059998

  We just went through that in our school district. The CC program was very strong and they decided to form a club team. They were not allowed to run in a few Invitationals but it worked out pretty well for them. As far as track goes you can always start a USA Track and Field club.
• Swamp Fox

  Isn't it a shame that when finances get tight, we treat extra-curricular activities as non educational entities. Music, art, theater, science clubs, language clubs, debate programs, gifted programs, and all the other programs that mean a lot to many of of our students are usually the first things to be cut. I do not subscribe to the theory that "if it was good enough for our grand parents, it's good enough for our kids as well." This isn't our grandparent's world anymore. "Reading, writing, and 'rithmatic" aren't enough to keep kids in school. I guess we have to ask ourselves if it's more important to put a man on the moon again than to keep our kids in class and see that they graduate instead of becoming drop-out statistics.