On average how much money is spent on high school sports each year? How much is spent on classroom education?

December 24, 2009 by admin · 2 Comments
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laremyz asked:

I did play sports in high school and it was fun! BUT…….
Only a small amount of students take part in high school sports programs. Or allowed to if they make the cut! Yet each school has a sports complex the same size as (or bigger than) the actual school buildings! The class rooms are stuffed or over stuffed.
Way more money seems to be spent on the few who play games then on the students actual educations.
Do sports programs exist at the EXPENCE of EDUCATIONAL programs?
Does sports take up 10%, 25%, 50% of the schools buget? How much?
There are academic scolerships for every thing! You can even get one for being left handed! And you do not have to have an “A” average to get many of them.

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2 Responses to “On average how much money is spent on high school sports each year? How much is spent on classroom education?”
  1. oddball says:
    December 25, 2009 at 7:43 am

    On average in the U.S. $6,500.00 is spent per student on education. At least that is what the Liberal NEA union want you to believe. The truth is, less than $250.00 is spent per student, per year, for each student.

    The rest of the money go to pay for extremely high Administrative Salaries. They also build expensive Monuments to themselves (new school building) and the rest of the money goes for other costs.

    The amount spent per student and for sporting activities is probably 10% or less of the $6,500.00 per student average. In States like California and New York the tax to they tune of $10,000.00 and more per student.

    When you realize the money collected for education, it make me really mad to interview prospective employees with barely the ability to read at a 3-4 grade level. oddball

  2. wolfmusic says:
    December 26, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    Oddballs statistics are wrong.

    Most schools have pre-existing sports complexes, in other words, these football fields, for example, were built when people highly valued both education and community sports. That is changing. In most communities today, you can’t get a levy passed to support purchasing new books let alone to build a new sports field.

    In many school districts today, students have to pay-to-play. In my school district, not one dollar goes to pay for sports. Parents have to foot the bill. There have been some generous people who have helped provide scholarships to need students. Our district has fund-raisers to help pay for the kids fees. When the district adopted this policy, many kids dropped out. That just puts more kids out on the street hanging out or sitting at home on the computer.

    Some students in nearby districts don’t even have sports in their schools. That means those kids who might have earned a scholarship to college for their sport, just lose out now. wolfmusic

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