California Community Colleges may lose all sports????

[blackwidow]

Off topic but relevant:

School "health" centers. Whatever happened to going to the nurses office until your parents came and picked you up?

http://californiawatch.org/k-12/school- ... nding-8071

http://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/policy.asp

Any thoughts on this social program?

[AM Softball]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/int ... -for-girls

I think this is really awesome. Watch the video. I cannot imagine what my life would have been like without sports and being a female playing, I can totally relate to this. Sports are very important for these kids. Most of you have daughters playing and can also relate. I thought I would share it here.

[AM Softball]

Girls and Athletics
http://www.profastpitch.com/pagebank/index.html?id=597
High school girls who play sports are less likely than non-participants to experience unwanted pregnancies; less likely to use drugs; less likely to smoke; less likely to be suicidal; more likely to get better grades in school; and more likely to graduate than girls who do not play sports.

Girls and women who play sports have higher levels of confidence and self-esteem and lower levels of depression.

Girls and women who play sports have a more positive body image and experience higher states of psychological well-being than girls and women who do not play sports.

Sports help prepare girls for the highly competitive workplace. Eight percent of female executives at Fortune 500 companies report having played in sports in school.

As little as four hours of exercise a week may reduce a teenage girl’s risk of breast cancer by up to 60%. Breast cancer currently afflicts one out of every eight American women.

*Source: Women’s Sports Foundation research

[blackwidow]

The question is not whether sports are a positive thing, the question is whether they should be a taxpayer funded social program?
Taking money from the general population by force of law to support a small group of special interests is immoral. Athletic departments can be funded in a variety of ways without obligating the entire population to support what many believe are extra-curricular activities that have no relation to getting an education.


http://reason.com/blog/2010/08/31/for-g ... ut-the-foo

http://sports-law.blogspot.com/2006/03/ ... ances.html