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*shakes tiny fist*

ShawnDoc: Asa Phelps: Why do their community backers want to kick in $54,000 for a scoreboard and not for meaningful school upgrades?

You don't live vicariously through your child's performance on the chapter 12 Social Studies test.

And that's it in a nutshell.
/yet to see a "school" that didn't put athletics top of every list in regards to importance
//was not an athlete

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Lemme guess. The money for the scoreboard was already budgeted and there was nothing anyone could do about it. Amirite?

Ahhh frick.

Grr.

It's Florida, so Is suspect that they fired the students.

Anyones surprised by this? Its the south. They don't need none of that fancy book learnin.

ShawnDoc: Asa Phelps: Why do their community backers want to kick in $54,000 for a scoreboard and not for meaningful school upgrades?

You don't live vicariously through your child's performance on the chapter 12 Social Studies test.

Pretty much this.

Sports is of huge importance to Americans.

Locally, District 51 is ALWAYS begging for money; claiming not enough budget for textbooks, or heat for the classrooms.

Meanwhile ... local civic administration upped the city's "Arts Budget" and spent Fifteen Thousand Dollars to add more "art" to the downtown business district including poetry on a stump.

Plus .... I personally know a Grant Writer for the District who makes $80,000 a year writing grants for the District. Last year she traveled 14 times to five star resorts to meet with other grant writers at District expense to strategize better ways to write grants. Even as, supposedly, District 51 could not afford school lunches or under-privileged free breakfasts.

It's ALL crooked, ALL a scam and ALL criminal.

Get me some rope ...

Jesus wept.

When my school wanted a new score board we let Pepsi foot the bill. They put up a new scoreboard with their logo and we let them put in Pepsi machines throughout the school.

Glad this isn't in Brevard or I would be venturing out tomorrow to b*tch somewhere.

The scoreboard would include a 7-foot-6-inch high, 24-foot-wide video screen ball target. The total cost, which includes installation, is $165,000, according to the district. It is expected to remain intact for no more than 11 hours.

FTFT

Asa Phelps: Why do their community bLackers want to kick in $54,000 for a scoreboard and not for meaningful school upgrades?

ftfy, but dammit...I don't have any handy links to those notsosureifserious.jpg' things....

Did you bother to read the article?

The people in question are upset about all the other kids with the pumped up kicks.

This will show 'em, but they should just buy all of the students iphones instead, so they don't shoot other people in the head. (new window)

CSB time

Went to high school and was apart of the engineering team, making robots to do all kinds of fancy things.

Freshman year we build one hell of a robot, and went on to win nationals (Which is awesome)

We got an announcement over the intercom at our school and that was it. However my Junior year we didn't even have enough money to participate and our engineering team teacher had to pay the rest out of pocket.

Meanwhile our school had won the state championship in football. To celebrate they spend like half a million on a new scoreboard. We got creamed the next year.

/Fking hate our school.

Sports is everything here, now. To hell with things that are more important to society, like science or the arts. "You'll get herpes just from walking down the halls, but DAMN IF WE DONT GOT THE BEST FOOTSBALL TEAM EVAR!"

Surprisingly, a good sports program (and all the little nicities like scoreboards) often generate a decent revenue for the school to use on other projects- that is assuming the school already has a decent fallowing.

As much as I'd prefer the school put more money toward the "3 R's", I have to admit, the sporting events, even for the admission price of $5 per person or more, are usually patronized by a full house. All the over-priced school gear gets sold out, as well as the $50 season tickets. There appears to be a lot of revenue generated by these events- 50k- 100k seems to be a reasonable price for a decent scoreboard as it is part of that pageantry of school sports.

For a little po-dunk school with a minimal school sports following to attempt this: don't bother as it's not the scoreboard they come to see. You could spend your dollars elsewhere.

I'm guessing the local teachers union still wants their raises and will strike if they try to add a $5 co-pay to their health insurance.

foo monkey: Lemme guess. The money for the scoreboard was already budgeted and there was nothing anyone could do about it. Amirite?

I learned something important when I was planning out loan borrowing, job expectations, living expenses and tuition for grad school: that budgets can change, funds and planned expenses can be shifted about, especially when a certain dumbass forgets to factor in the coin-operating laundry facilities for the year's budget.

tacojohn: When my school wanted a new score board we let Pepsi foot the bill. They put up a new scoreboard with their logo and we let them put in Pepsi machines throughout the school.

This was exactly what happened in my old school district. I forget if it was Pepsi or Coca-Cola, but one of them offered exactly the same deal. The school board then shot it down because (insert any food with sugar) is bad for you and they didn't want that in their school. The next school year they raised money for the scoreboard by having a bake sale. 90% of what was sold was 90% sugar (yes, that's 90% twice!). The year after the bake sale...guess who had Pepsi come in to install machines? It was found the school board decided money for their slush fund was a better use for the money than a scoreboard. They're all corrupt.

Drakin020: CSB time

Went to high school and was apart of the engineering team, making robots to do all kinds of fancy things.

Freshman year we build one hell of a robot, and went on to win nationals (Which is awesome)

We got an announcement over the intercom at our school and that was it. However my Junior year we didn't even have enough money to participate and our engineering team teacher had to pay the rest out of pocket.

Meanwhile our school had won the state championship in football. To celebrate they spend like half a million on a new scoreboard. We got creamed the next year.

/Fking hate our school.

Uhm, aren't we missing the part of the story where you guys programmed your robot to smash the scoreboard to pieces?

/there is also ample opportunity to work in a Cyberball reference here

clowncar on fire: Surprisingly, a good sports program (and all the little nicities like scoreboards) often generate a decent revenue for the school to use on other projects- that is assuming the school already has a decent fallowing.

As much as I'd prefer the school put more money toward the "3 R's", I have to admit, the sporting events, even for the admission price of $5 per person or more, are usually patronized by a full house. All the over-priced school gear gets sold out, as well as the $50 season tickets. There appears to be a lot of revenue generated by these events- 50k- 100k seems to be a reasonable price for a decent scoreboard as it is part of that pageantry of school sports.

For a little po-dunk school with a minimal school sports following to attempt this: don't bother as it's not the scoreboard they come to see. You could spend your dollars elsewhere.

Not to mention they could take a page from the pros here... get your board sponsored. I'm sure some company wants to have their logo in the background of the video displaying the next Michael Vick.

clowncar on fire: Surprisingly, a good sports program (and all the little nicities like scoreboards) often generate a decent revenue for the school to use on other projects- that is assuming the school already has a decent faollowing.

As much as I'd prefer the school put more money toward the "3 R's", I have to admit, the sporting events at my kid's schools, even for the admission price of $5 per person or more, are usually patronized by a full house. All the over-priced school gear gets sold out, as well as the $50 season tickets. There appears to be a lot of revenue generated by these events- 50k- 100k seems to be a reasonable price for a decent scoreboard as it is part of that pageantry of school sports.

For a little po-dunk school with a minimal school sports following to attempt this: don't bother as it's not the scoreboard they come to see. You could spend your dollars elsewhere.

Some corrections were overlooked.

Organized highscool team sports have quite a following here in Louisville KY. H.S. football gets on TV, and several of the the rivalries are played at the University stadium so that they have room to hold the fans. Both my daughters H.S. football teams have played here a couple times this year already. Link

/not even a fan of sports
//still impressed by pageantry none the less

Sim Tree: Clemkadidlefark: Locally, District 51 is ALWAYS begging for money; claiming not enough budget for textbooks, or heat for the classrooms.

Meanwhile ... local civic administration upped the city's "Arts Budget" and spent Fifteen Thousand Dollars to add more "art" to the downtown business district including poetry on a stump.

Plus .... I personally know a Grant Writer for the District who makes $80,000 a year writing grants for the District. Last year she traveled 14 times to five star resorts to meet with other grant writers at District expense to strategize better ways to write grants. Even as, supposedly, District 51 could not afford school lunches or under-privileged free breakfasts.

It's ALL crooked, ALL a scam and ALL criminal.

Get me some rope ...

To be fair, you want to keep your grant writers happy. They get you more money. Cutting funding for grants is a bit of eating your seed corn.

Spoken like a true bureaucrat.

exvaxman: Hey - don;t feel too bad. When Hugo hit SC, one district thought it was far more important to rebuild the gym than replace textbooks/classrooms/cafeteria/etc. They didn;t get new textbooks for three years.

I remember that storm. A lot residents in that area bought out the stores of milk, meats and tv's. Then they lost power.

/still cracks me

"This is something that we've been working on for the last 16 years," said Ernestine Price, who graduated from the school in 1958. "Our children deserve it."

Our children...

Our children...

Our children...

Melon farmers, after your kids get out of high school, they're not going to remember how shiatty the scoreboard looked. Although looking at the pretty LEDs might prepare them for a sweet gig in front of the fry machine in the event they can't read or write well.

Cpl.D: Sports is everything here, now. To hell with things that are more important to society, like science or the arts. "You'll get herpes just from walking down the halls, but DAMN IF WE DONT GOT THE BEST FOOTSBALL TEAM EVAR!"

Ely High is right in the middle of the hood' football is very important to 'those' people. I have worked for Broward schools for 30 years and been there hundreds of times, it's a shiathole. They have a magnet program to try to bring in smart kids, they last about two weeks and their parents pull them. Back on subject: Broward school board wastes huge amounts of money

Come on, Farkers. Those Floridians have their shiat together. They know what's important.

Otherwise they'd have construction held up over a debate to change the school's colors (new window).

tacojohn: When my school wanted a new score board we let Pepsi foot the bill. They put up a new scoreboard with their logo and we let them put in Pepsi machines throughout the school.

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They need the scoreboard to go with the $5.8 farking million they spent to upgrade the athletic facilities at the school. Third paragraph.

Zoomaster: tacojohn: When my school wanted a new score board we let Pepsi foot the bill. They put up a new scoreboard with their logo and we let them put in Pepsi machines throughout the school.

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Why are American kids obese, Alex?

Indubitably: Zoomaster: tacojohn: When my school wanted a new score board we let Pepsi foot the bill. They put up a new scoreboard with their logo and we let them put in Pepsi machines throughout the school.

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Why are American kids obese, Alex?

Too much time sitting and contributing to the innernets?

clowncar on fire: Indubitably: Zoomaster: tacojohn: When my school wanted a new score board we let Pepsi foot the bill. They put up a new scoreboard with their logo and we let them put in Pepsi machines throughout the school.

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Why are American kids obese, Alex?

Too much time sitting and contributing to the innernets?

Nope, too much time buying Pepsi at school and watching "their" sports team win illusory approbations while perched on their prepubescently-Pepsi-proportioned posteriors, methinks.

Indubitably: clowncar on fire: Indubitably: Zoomaster: tacojohn: When my school wanted a new score board we let Pepsi foot the bill. They put up a new scoreboard with their logo and we let them put in Pepsi machines throughout the school.

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Why are American kids obese, Alex?

Too much time sitting and contributing to the innernets?

Nope, too much time buying Pepsi at school and watching "their" sports team win illusory approbations while perched on their prepubescently-Pepsi-proportioned posteriors, methinks.

And with that: *exeunt*

;)

FTA: Williams acknowledged the district could buy a cheaper scoreboard but said Blanche Ely and Dillard High in Fort Lauderdale - two historic black schools - have felt slighted over the years as the district prioritized other schools. The existing scoreboard is more than 30 years old, he said.


Seems kind of like using your unemployment check to buy a nice LCD tv.