Our priorities are totally screwed. (Texas high school football)

[Archae]

Article here about how teachers and coaches will cheat, towns close down, umpty-million $$$ is blown on high school football stadiums.

Meanwhile Texas' school board plays with history and science textbooks, making students stupid.

http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1750-bigger-than-nfl-5-realities-texas-school-football.html

I grew up in a Wisconsin small town, and yes. The damned football players even back in the 70's were the BMOC, they got all the girls and could be complete dicks, and get away with it at times.

[PumpkinAle]

1. In NV they wanted to change the hours school starts for high school

due to a study showing how circadian rhythms really affect teens. They have had to shelf this because too many parents complained the later hours would interfere with sports practice and games.

[bpj62]

3. I am assuming you mean Northern Virginia

My daughter is one of those athletes that you are speaking about. Yes many parents did complain because the change in time will affect pick up times after practice. It also pushes the buses that take the students to the games into the evening rush hour. It will also mess with dinner schedules and study time. We have 26 high schools in Fairfax County so the schedule change will be massive. By the way my daughter is a 3 sport athlete who also does competitive Cheerleading and is still involved in the Girl Scouts. She also has a 3.5 gpa.

[PumpkinAle]

4. No NV - Nevada

Good for your daughter and while it will mess with schedules, those schedules should be flexible enough to change. Sorry, but I think we need to think of our children first and then ourselves.

In the UK my niece was able to play lacrosse after school, tutor and get her studies done, - school hours were 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. She loved school, was able to get to school well rested and able to learn and then go and enjoy sports. It can be done, and for the sake of our kids, it should be done.

[reformist2]

2. Great article. I had no idea. I bet a lot of people are like me.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Love Cracked. Hate Football. Especially High School Football.

There is nothing worse than dumb, jock rapists.

[pinboy3niner]

6. That's what threw me when they announced Trump would speak at a HS football stadium seating 43,000

That was Alabama, but it was a far cry from the football field at my California HS with its cheap bleachers. And our team was All-City Champion in Los Angeles!

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. Actually, that stadium was originally built in Mobile for college games and the NFL Senior Bowl

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along with high school games. Alabama and Auburn each played one game a year there back in the 1950s. Smaller colleges such as Troy played games there. Today, it is used as the home stadium for the University of South Alabama football team. The Senior Bowl game for the NFL was and still is played there each January. Its a very old multi-use stadium for high schools, colleges, and even the NFL scouting system.

[pinboy3niner]

9. Thanks for that info. That makes more sense now.

There's no way HS football needs a stadium that size. Even if it were in Texas.

But I have seen our local junior college build a huge stadium while laying off faculty.

[Elwood P Dowd]

10. The corporate news media caused your confusion. Those idiots never do any reasearch and had

no freaking clue even about the venue where Donald Trump was about to drop his fecal matter. Those idiots called it a High School stadium.

I played 6 years of Jr High and High School football but agree there is no reason for these Texas schools to build some of those damn stadiums. When I played back int the 1960s is was less serious and just something fun to do despite the hard work involved. A big crowd for our games was 5,000. Now its getting out of control.

[JPZenger]

7. Moore Oklahoma

Remember Moore Oklahoma? They were right in the middle of tornado alley and were hit by a very severe tornado a number of years ago. Afterwards, they did little to make their elementary school safer. Federal grants were available to help fund the construction of large safe rooms at schools to protect students from tornadoes. The school district didn't build one. However, they did spend millions of dollars to upgrade their high school football stadium. Then their elementary school was leveled by a tornado. Fortunately, many students and teachers escaped serious injury in the basement, with teachers protecting the children with their bodies.