tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8895200797299787815.post-59106979708768970262007-09-23T13:58:00.000-05:002007-09-23T14:09:21.207-05:00I'd like to start a discussion on district funding of Athletics. This school year the district will have a co-op Hockey team that is fully supported by donations, scholarships and fees, there are no taxpayer dollars going to fund this team.<br /><br />Is this fair? Is this something we should look at for all our teams? If our sports teams had to be privately funded, would the teams disappear? Should the district at least have a minium number of participants to continue a team? Currently the district does not want to run academic classes if there are less than 15 participants, should the same standard hold for athletics? <br /><br />I completely believe that athletics plays an important part in an adolescent's life but the question is, when educational institutions continually are cutting their budgets by millions, is the investment in athletics more valuable than the othe programs being cut? <br /><br />I'd love to hear people's thoughts on the issue.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8895200797299787815-5910697970876897026?l=oshkoshstudents.blogspot.com'/></div>Questioningnoreply@blogger.com5