Tonight on KVNU’s For the People…
Should High School Athletics and Activities be forced to dry up or privatize? We’ll talk with Paul T. Mero of the Sutherland Institute who says that is an option that should be considered.
We’ll talk with Providence Mayor Randy Simmons about a candidate forum to take place tomorrow night.
Cache County farmers will be sending releif hay to ranchers in Central Utah who lost range to wildfires the summer. Joe Fuhriman of the Cache Cattleman’s Association gives us all the details.
Should the government bail out homeowners who can’t make their mortgage payments?
All of that, your phone calls and more, tonight on KVNU’s For the People!
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- 8/28 Salt Lake Tribune: Cattlemen come to aid of wildfire-stricken ranchers
- 8/27 Herald Journal:Local farmers helping area hit by fire
- Sutherland Institute: Paul T. Mero’s testimony on UHSAA
- Sutherland Institute Official Website
Privatization of our high school programs? Feh. Sounds like a pie in the sky that will lead to more students missing out on beneficial sports programs because they don’t “make the team” for the best schools that have a full roster already, and as a result most likely will get nothing from un-sponsored schools. Not to mention the loss of sports with fewer spectators, and the non-sports activities that would be hard-pressed to receive a sponsor.
Not only that, but it would be reasonable to assume that the sports programs that survive by gaining sponsorship would be more concerned about maintaining that sponsorship to keep itself alive. This would result in much stronger pressure to engage in unethical behavior behind the scenes to remain competitive, trumping safety of athletes and educational responsibilities.
Sports programs help students in more ways than simply winning games through athletic prowess.
About that public forum for Providence: I agree that if they don’t want to have what they say recorded, then maybe they shouldn’t be running for office. Transparency is important to me with politicians too, no matter how local.
I really don’t think sponsorship would occur on a sport-by-sport basis, but rather a school-by-school one. I believe this is how it works in college; Nike will supply every sport at a university, not just the big ones.
Ok, that makes sense.
I concerned though, if programs of certain schools had to dry up due to lack of sponsorship, wouldn’t that be a disservice to the student body that remains and cannot be added to the roster of sponsored schools? I still think that the competition to become and remain sponsored schools would be unhealthy as well. This is my opinion of it.
I am not convinced that the argument for privatizing schools is strong enough to merit a change that drastic.
*edit* privatizing schools = privatizing sports *edit*