Track, field would outweigh academics
October 3, 2008 · Updated 1:15 AM
I agree with the Snoqualmie Valley Record [Nov. 30 editorial] that
cuts in King County funding should be fairly distributed. I support
county government's decision to make cuts in less-than-critical recreational
budget items (including pools and community centers) rather than in public
safety and criminal justice, but hope that they are being fair in distributing those
cuts around the county.
I am less wholeheartedly in agreement about the Riverview athletic
facility levy. The proposed facilities included a ticket booth, concession
stand and restrooms, in addition to new fields and track. These items seem more
appropriate to Safeco Field than to a small, local high school's
football field.
Making high-school sports competition into a spectator sport on
such a scale as to need a ticket booth and concession stand (and separate
bathrooms from those in the adjacent school building) is extravagant. It
also has the undesirable effect of placing athletic achievement on a higher
plane of importance as against academic achievement. Being a
high-school football star will not help much with finding a good job after
graduation; learning math and English will!
Karen J. Williams
Duvall
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