Public HS: Does yours value sports over academics?

SvenskanFisk
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:02:53 +0000

Yes, they do value sports over academics (for the most part)
-our school wanted to build a gym that was bigger than permitted by state law for a school of our size. In order to receive permission to build a gym of such immensity, they needed to add extra classrooms so it’d be in proportion…but these classrooms are not being used to lessen the amount of students in a class. They are designated for clubs that maybe meet twice a month.
-Our school’s clubs receive little funding. Our newspaper is award winning but we receive no support from the school, we have to fund it entirely through advertising. Clubs meet sporadically at our school unless they have been recognized on a major level. We used to have more academic clubs (e.g. UN, Spanish, Sign Language) but most of them have gradually disappeared and we are left with Robotics, Academic Bowl, NHS, the Newspaper and the Yearbook.
-At the middle school level, clubs are planned around sports. The administrators decided they didn’t want athletes to be prevented from enrolling in clubs, so now NO clubs can meet after school to accomodate the athletes. There is only an activity period once every two weeks for students to join clubs.