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Sports have become way too important in high school. In addition to bad ideas about start times, site selection for schools based on having huge amounts of land

Sports have become way too important in high school. In addition to bad ideas about start times, site selection for schools based on having huge amounts of land for sports fields means far away schools instead of being centrally located near a lot of people so students can walk to school easily.

yamtaddle 4y ago
We have one local district with a weirdly-far-removed area with a couple local schools but who have to travel really far to get to the high school, which is farther out of the city in an exurb town. That's (the town) also where all the sports facilities are. Everyone concerned would clearly be better off if this little area could be absorbed by another district (it has two better-fit candidates bordering it! Of the three plausible options, it's connected to the silliest one! And, hell, those two are both better ranked, academically than the one it's attached to, by a long shot!) or become its own mini-district—the ones up in the town hate the ones from "down South" (and, yes, there's very explicitly a racist element to this for some of them—which is fucking absurd anyway, the area's majority white and includes some neighborhoods far richer than the average of the town, but having lived in a different but similarly-situated far-removed exurb growing up, I know exactly the kind of messed-up ideas they get about "the city") and resent sending any district money that way, while having to go way North for high school sucks for the ones down South, both due to the sheer distance and because of the, ahem, cultural differences. Why will they never separate? Losing those kids would drop the district into a less-prestigious sports conference, since they'd be smaller. No way they wouldn't fight any change, tooth and nail, despite plainly thinking the kids from farther south are shit. Plus they, ah, rely on that geographically-nonsensical southern annex for player recruitment. Yes, the whole thing's just as gross, in fact, as that reads. All because of fucking school sports.
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yamtaddle 4y ago

We have one local district with a weirdly-far-removed area with a couple local schools but who have to travel really far to get to the high school, which is farther out of the city in an exurb town. That's (the town) also where all the sports facilities are. Everyone concerned would clearly be better off if this little area could be absorbed by another district (it has two better-fit candidates bordering it! Of the three plausible options, it's connected to the silliest one! And, hell, those two are both better ranked, academically than the one it's attached to, by a long shot!) or become its own mini-district—the ones up in the town hate the ones from "down South" (and, yes, there's very explicitly a racist element to this for some of them—which is fucking absurd anyway, the area's majority white and includes some neighborhoods far richer than the average of the town, but having lived in a different but similarly-situated far-removed exurb growing up, I know exactly the kind of messed-up ideas they get about "the city") and resent sending any district money that way, while having to go way North for high school sucks for the ones down South, both due to the sheer distance and because of the, ahem, cultural differences. Why will they never separate? Losing those kids would drop the district into a less-prestigious sports conference, since they'd be smaller. No way they wouldn't fight any change, tooth and nail, despite plainly thinking the kids from farther south are shit. Plus they, ah, rely on that geographically-nonsensical southern annex for player recruitment. Yes, the whole thing's just as gross, in fact, as that reads. All because of fucking school sports.

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