Why the hell does it cost 50 grand to have sports?

Surely they meant two new meth labs for $50K.

Premont?

Don't they already have their own country?


/¿Por qué no habla Juan inglés?

eddyatwork: Why the hell does it cost 50 grand to have sports?

No shiat. Buy each school a few dozen of these:



Or hell, hire more teachers like Deborah Lafave. That'll get the little bastards to do some cardio.

If Jose has 3 oranges and Raul has 5 oranges, how many miles will it take for Maria to fall dead from dehydration by illegally crossing the Rio Grande into South Texas?

/typical math problem in Texas

CruiserTwelve: He says the district should save $50,000 this spring by dropping sports and using the money for two new science labs.

Science? Texas? Jesus will have none of that nonsense!


Agrees.

From TFA: will start following the end of the basketball season.

While I recognize that this is likely because money has already been spent and contracts in place for things like transportation and coaches salaries, it still sends the wrong message.

If this school were truly committed to turning itself around educationally, they would have cancelled all sports immediately and redirected whatever committed resources they could to extra tutoring or something.

Don't get rid of sports, just stop funding it through the school's budget and stop doing it during normal school hours. It should be after school and it should be paid for 100% by the participants.

When Texas finally becomes its own country

They will then be declared terrorists and blown off the face of the earth, with a reminder to the rest of the South to not even try.

I bet donations start rolling in now.

Had they asked for donations for two new labs they would have been called socialists though.

casual disregard: They should introduce Khan Academy (new window) into their classrooms. Their academic performance would shoot through the roof.

Putting worms into someone's ear won't make them learn any faster.

/KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH H HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNN

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mikdeetx: If Jose has 3 oranges and Raul has 5 oranges, how many miles will it take for Maria to fall dead from dehydration by illegally crossing the Rio Grande into South Texas?

/typical math problem in Texas

And if there is a .1% chance per mile that Maria will be shot by a redneck landowner, what are her chances of making it long enough to die of dehydration?

casual disregard: They should introduce Khan Academy (new window) into their classrooms. Their academic performance would shoot through the roof.

I've been working my way through that for my own edification. Almost finished. I can't recommend that site enough.

kiwimoogle84: They'll just end up wasting all the extra cash on capital punishment anyway. This IS Texas after all.

They could save even more money by going back to good ole' hangins. They could even re-use the rope.

Uncle Tractor: [img1.fark.net image 54x11]?

No, since it's Texas.

The irony of the money being spent on two new "science" labs is interesting.
Is this the science that believes the earth is 6015 years old?

eddyatwork: Why the hell does it cost 50 grand to have sports?

Steroids aren't free.

"Finally", subby? I think "Again" is the word you're looking for.

kiwimoogle84: cbackous: kiwimoogle84: They'll just end up wasting all the extra cash on capital punishment anyway. This IS Texas after all.

/not against it
//just making a point

actually the capital punishment rate for Texas in 2011 was a very low number.

Times is hard

/heh..hard

See I've never been to Texas though, so in my mind's eye they're all a bunch of hicks with ten gallon hats waving their NRA badges and shaking their rifles screaming "Leeann, get me some more of that apple pie, there's abouts'ta be a lynchin'!!"

/ducks

Badges?! We don't need no skinkin' badges.

mikdeetz

If Jose pickshas 3 oranges and Raul pickshas 5 oranges, how many miles will it take for Maria to fall dead from dehydration by illegally crossing the Rio Grande into South Texas to have her anchor baby?


FIFY

kiwimoogle84: See I've never been to Texas though, so in my mind's eye they're all a bunch of hicks with ten gallon hats waving their NRA badges and shaking their rifles screaming "Leeann, get me some more of that apple pie, there's abouts'ta be a lynchin'!!"

/ducks

LOL XD

I suspect it depends on what part of Texas you're in.
Austin seems like a cool place. They worship Stevie Ray over Jesus. OTOH, my friend stayed overnight at a tiny town in SE Texas during a cross-country trip and confirmed that basically everyone in the town had a truck with a gunrack and didn't like black people.

I couldn't give an exact number from my head, but schools here literally spend MILLIONS on stadiums. Academically, they're not so great, but this isn't what people care about. Practically every man woman and child is frothing at the mouth over every high school football game, though. THAT's what counts.

Also, the schools often have daycare for student's kids in their budgets. This was an eye opener for me.

kiwimoogle84: cbackous: kiwimoogle84: cbackous: kiwimoogle84: They'll just end up wasting all the extra cash on capital punishment anyway. This IS Texas after all.

/not against it
//just making a point

actually the capital punishment rate for Texas in 2011 was a very low number.

Times is hard

/heh..hard

See I've never been to Texas though, so in my mind's eye they're all a bunch of hicks with ten gallon hats waving their NRA badges and shaking their rifles screaming "Leeann, get me some more of that apple pie, there's abouts'ta be a lynchin'!!"

/ducks

LOL.

I'm not a Texan, just stationed there, so no need to duck. The town I am in is mostly older people, cowboy hats yes.. and they only wave the rifles if you are trespassing.

Wasn't ducking from you. Was ducking from everyone else.

Nah, we don't need you to tell us we're great. We already know it.

Sports are important to a warmongering nation where the plutocrats encourage tribal animosities to distract the plebes and divide them so they won't unite against them the plutocrats

So no. They will fund sports if it means they have to sell the library books on eBay

sethstorm: When Texas finally becomes its own country

They will then be declared terrorists and blown off the face of the earth, with a reminder to the rest of the South to not even try.

I wouldn't mind. My brother and his family live in Texas. Whenever my three nieces grin at the camera for their annual Xmas card photo, they look like something from out of a Call of Cthulhu supplement (my sister-in-law used to call her father a "shark"-I believe it). Everybody would be better off.

Seriously though, cancel sports at a Texas school? That's like Martin Luther nailing the the Ninety-Five Theses on that church's front door. But then even my rightwing wingnut brother has had it with schools in Texas. My nieces are going to college in Liberal Socialist France because they're light years ahead of Texas and they're cheaper.

Now if we can get the rest of the country to do the same.

Texas is people too, my friends.

Canceling sports is a step in the right direction but it looks like there are far bigger problems in the district.

This announcement to parents that the high school didn't meet improvement goals has a misspelling.

$50K-cheap skates. Allen Texas is building a $60 MILLION upgrade to it's stadium Link (new window)