Thread: A Texas town is building a $62.8 million high school football stadium

Originally Posted by slim

You dummies should read about how the entire school district will benefit and how this bond issue will actually lower property taxes for the community.

I read the article twice & found no mention of this anywhere. Nevertheless, if the lower property taxes are the result of lower property value caused by building a facility that will increase noise & traffic, then just about everyone who recently took out a new mortgage will be instantly upside down on their mortgage.

That's almost as bad as Kentucky's Governor cutting healthcare and education and giving tax breaks to the guy building Noah's Ark.

Originally Posted by slim

You dummies should read about how the entire school district will benefit and how this bond issue will actually lower property taxes for the community.

It's funny how often these benefits don't actually come to fruition, Slim.

Originally Posted by slim

You dummies should read about how the entire school district will benefit and how this bond issue will actually lower property taxes for the community.

There goes slim and his mansplaining.

Originally Posted by Davii

I hope these districts aren't cancelling music classes, art classes, band, etc. while devoting these sort of resources to football.

What's wrong with cancelling art classes for football?

Originally Posted by atwater27

What's wrong with cancelling art classes for football?

Football as we know it is a dying sport.

Let me be as succinct as I can:

I don't care. If that's what they want to spend their money on, good for them.

Originally Posted by BroncoJoe

Let me be as succinct as I can:

I don't care. If that's what they want to spend their money on, good for them.

If that's your stance, then good for you.

Originally Posted by BroncoJoe

Let me be as succinct as I can:

I don't care. If that's what they want to spend their money on, good for them.

Is it something that you would support if your community was thinking about an expensive football stadium?

Originally Posted by aberdien

Football as we know it is a dying sport.

Most things people consider art make me die inside.

Originally Posted by atwater27

Most things people consider art make me die inside.

Atwater, do you have me blocked?

Originally Posted by atwater27

What's wrong with cancelling art classes for football?

I'm not a big art fan. I don't 'get it'. But there is a lot of value in the subject and area. One of the key things that separates humanity from other animals is our ability to think and create. One of greatest aspects of our thinking and creation can be found in art.

I wish schools were able to push Science and Math more so we could compete with the rest of the world.

Good. When we can fill a 12,000-seat stadium to watch a math contest, call me.

Originally Posted by OrangeHoof

Good. When we can fill a 12,000-seat stadium to watch a math contest, call me.

School is about education, and athletics can certainly be a part of that. With that being said, mathematics is far more useful in an average person's life than football. So why would the focus be about filling seats to watch math and not just about pushing math, or on the macro level, as DD pointed out, improving our skills as a nation at math and science?