Current Events > It's more important that schools put more money into sports than into art

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http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-high-school-football-stadium-2016-5

Voters in McKinney, Texas, have approved the funding for a $62.8 million high-school football stadium, according to The Dallas Morning News. It will be the most expensive high-school stadium in the country.

The venue, seen above in an artist's rendering, will seat 12,000 fans and be the home to three area high schools in the suburb of Dallas.

The funding is part of a $220 million bond for the McKinney Independent School District that will go toward repairs and upgrades of existing facilities, as well as the construction of the new stadium and an attached events center.

Amazingly, this will be the third stadium in Texas to cost at least $60 million.

How many people go to watch this high school team???
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Twice the amount of people that attend a highschool graduation.

Imagine being such a vapid schmuck that you care about football that goddamn much.
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Sports equipment need to be efficient or else athletes risk injury and low morale , however, there's a larger demographic for art since you don't need to be physically fit to get into art.

Yes, sports is more important than art.

It's a good teaching tool for kids too
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Anisoptera posted...

Sports equipment need to be efficient or else athletes risk injury and low morale , however, there's a larger demographic for art since you don't need to be physically fit to get into art.

You risk injury by playing football no matter how fucking good the equipment is bruv
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mobilebloechel posted...

JamaalCharles39 posted...

How many people go to watch this high school team???

Uhh its Texas, they take high school football very seriously

I guess its just a foreign concept to me that 12000 people would go to a football game...

Uncle_Drew posted...

Yes, sports is more important than art.

It's a good teaching tool for kids too

So is art, possibly more so.
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a strong sports program is arguably more valuable for a school's reputation than a strong arts program. higher reputation => more demand => more revenue => more money for arts. Rising tide raises all ships, etc

at least that's how it would work in theory, I don't know the data on this so I could be wrong
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Sports teaches teamwork
Art teaches ????

https://nafme.org/lessons-learned-in-music-carry-over-to-all-aspects-of-life/

Im in football and marching band and love them both but anybody who says art doesnt teach you anything has no idea what their talking about.

But I guess I can somehwat see what your saying selladore
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sellerdore posted...

higher reputation => more demand => more revenue => more money for arts.

aren't high schools public schools though
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