In the early 1980's, I was Buildings and Grounds Supervisor for a local public school district for five years.
I learned real soon that the school district wasn't run by the School Board and Administration. The school system was run by the local sports booster club. Academic matters were meaningless, what happened in the district was what the sports booster club wanted to happen. The funny part of it was, the school wasn't even a sports powerhouse. The football team went 0 for 8 one year.
In college at the University of Nebraska, it infuriated me to see students working just as hard as any athlete to prepare themselves for academic or performing competitions, then when you picked up the newspaper you had 8 pages of sports and not a word about the other students.
In fact, I did a survey once including the Omaha World Herald and Lincoln Journal Star newspapers, and it averaged out to four column inches of type concerning sports to every one column inch dedicated to academic matters. (Other news excluded).
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