Austin Texas Schools: Football is more important than education | Cassandra's Tears - 0 views
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Laying off 1153 people. On the other hand the athletics department is cutting almost $500,000… from it’s 11.3 MILLION dollar budget.
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What really sad, is by eliminating athletics, they could immediately save 220 jobs (assuming each of those jobs cost the district $50,000 a year (which it probably does not)).
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Based on the stipends in the article, they could keep up to 1.3 teachers per coach fired. That’s probably 10 teachers per high school and 3-5 per middle school.
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This helps state my argument that today for some reason football (Not just football), is more important that education. The examples used in this article is how Austin Texas schools laid off 1,153 people on the academic side while on the athletic side only $500,000 from it's 11.3 million dollar budget.