We have heard a great deal of propaganda from our school district promoting turf. However, many colleges are removing turf from their playing fields because of the injuries athletes are sustaining. They are replacing the turf with a special type of sod which cushions players when they fall.
I believe that the cost of this expense is not justified in view of this new development.
If we have funds to spend, a more widespread advantage would be to provide drivers' education to every student. This would increase the safety of all of our citizens and also reduce premiums to auto policy holders. Anybody who has driven by the high school early in the morning when students are rushing to class, knows that driving too fast in a reckless manner is the order of the day.
Finally, I would like to mention that New York students cost almost twice as much as any other state in the U.S. It doesn't take much intelligence to add 5, 10, 15 percent to last year's budget, but to reduce the cost per student in our district would require a creative leader.
The only way to teach this lesson to our school leaders is to vote down this year's budget. We must get back to operating from local school up, instead of from the state director down.
Robert Body
Auburn
If we have funds to spend, a more widespread advantage would be to provide drivers' education to every student. This would increase the safety of all of our citizens and also reduce premiums to auto policy holders. Anybody who has driven by the high school early in the morning when students are rushing to class, knows that driving too fast in a reckless manner is the order of the day.
Finally, I would like to mention that New York students cost almost twice as much as any other state in the U.S. It doesn't take much intelligence to add 5, 10, 15 percent to last year's budget, but to reduce the cost per student in our district would require a creative leader.
The only way to teach this lesson to our school leaders is to vote down this year's budget. We must get back to operating from local school up, instead of from the state director down.
Robert Body
Auburn
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tlb4 wrote on Apr 16, 2008 3:46 PM:
nature lover wrote on Apr 16, 2008 2:55 PM:
tlb4 wrote on Apr 16, 2008 2:01 PM:
tlb4 wrote on Apr 16, 2008 1:55 PM:
The Holland Stadium renovation is really a small part of this project, the larger part includes work on all the district schools for plumbing, air handling, boilers, fixing bathrooms,replacing doors etc. The funds made available by the State for this project, listen carefully,CANNOT BE USED FOR DRIVER EDUCATION, BOOKS,OR HIRING TEACHERS.
I do know how we can save some $$. If we had an all-weather synthetic playing field the Auburn Athletic Dept.would not have to pay so much in field rental costs to other districts all Spring. The 1st month (every year) of the Spring Season is spent "out of town" for our athletes because our field (Holland) is unplayable. "
brew1234 wrote on Apr 16, 2008 1:22 PM:
vinmeister1 wrote on Apr 16, 2008 1:13 PM:
I agree with you 100%. Once again Auburn schools have their priorities wrong and the children will suffer for the shortcomings of those in charge. They also fail in that all that money they spend on these children is returned to the community with a massive percentage of high school drop outs. To me the system is a proven failure and all people want to talk about it turf. Those people should be ashamed. "