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I agree and I vote.
My local government school has a 10 million dollar football stadium (astro turf on the field and teak in the locker rooms). What a waste--my(considerable)property tax dollars at work to give a bunch of privileged kids a place to play.

You know why they have that 10 million dollar football stadium (the one near where I live cost more and has a Jumbotron)? They have it because the next town over has it, and because the parents let them get away with it.

They need to get it through their heads that this isn't college and you're not trying to recruit incoming 9th graders - your kids can play football just fine in what passes as a pasture for most of the year, and has metal and wooden bleachers - I know I played in plenty of "stadiums" that looked to me like they were cow pastures with painted lines and some goal posts.

There are just a lot of stupid parents who think things like multi-million dollar stadiums are very important to their child's education (and I say this as a Texan).

The districts and the government deserves a lot of blame, but I think, in the end, it's poor parenting that is steering this country in the direction it's headed.